Rahim AlHaj is re-imagining Iraq for the Western imagination. The renowned oud player, composer, two-time Grammy nominee and 2009 United States Artists fellow says he is using his music to bring Iraqi ...

Long uprooted from his native Iraq, Naseer Shamma, an icon of the Arabic oud, has returned home to help rekindle the flame of Iraqi music, snuffed out by decades of conflict. "When you are in your ...

Naseer Shamma (Arabic ,نصير شمة), is a renowned Arab Iraqi musician and oud player. He was born in 1963 in Kut, a village on the Tigris River. He began studying the oud at the age of 12 in Baghdad, ...

oud player, and composer. He has performed numerous concerts across the Arab and international world and composed music for films, plays, and TV series. Born in 1963 in Kut, Iraq, Shamma graduated ...

The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces, U.S. Central ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces ...

Therefore, last Wednesday, the concert of the renowned Iraqi artist and oud master Naseer al Shamma began with one of the most emblematic songs of Othman al Mosuli: The Mother of Black Eyes.

BAGHDAD (AP) — The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces, the ...

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaybani, left, speaks during a news conference with his Iraqi counterpart, Fouad Hussein, following their meeting, in Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday, March.14 ...