TEL AVIV, Israel — The name of this central Tel Aviv bar comes from an American war hero in Iraq. The decor is accented with photographs of bearded Taliban men. The music fuses aggressive club rhythms ...

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Iraqi virtuoso oud player Naseer Shamma returns to homeland with plans to fund education, arts in war-torn nation BAGHDAD — War kept him away from his beloved homeland for decades. Now, virtuoso oud ...

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. Exiled in 1993 under dictator Saddam Hussein, Naseer Shamma ...

Encompassing dozens of countries inhabited by close to 500 million people, the Arab world is enormously diverse, and its music reflects that. Our list of the 50 best Arabic pop songs of the 21st ...

It is a bitter thing for an artist to suddenly descend from stardom to obscurity through no fault of his own. When Daoud al-Kuwaiti and his brother Salah were forced to leave Iraq for Israel in 1951, ...

A small but vital musical revolution has been taking place in Israel. In the last two decades, a small group of Mizrahi Jews — Jews of Middle Eastern and North African descent — have returned to their ...

Israeli musician Dudu Tassa, who opened Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival with a Friday afternoon performance backed by his band the Kuwaitis and will do the same this weekend, has deep roots.

BAGHDAD – War kept him away from his beloved homeland for decades. Now, virtuoso oud player Naseer Shamma hopes to help rebuild conflict-scarred Iraq through a series of concerts and other projects to ...