Ibrahim Maalouf plays a four-valve trumpet — most just have three. The extra valve, attached to the button a trumpeter pushes down, allows the Lebanese musician to play quarter-tones — the notes ...

Two decades and counting into a career in which he’s established himself as one of the Middle East’s most acclaimed instrumentalists, you’d forgive Dubai-based oudist and guitarist Kamal Musallam if ...

Fujairah: The Fujairah Cultural and Media Authority (FCMA) is set to host an event to celebrate a traditional musical instrument favoured by poet-singers throughout the Arab world early next month.

After eating Arab cuisine and listening to musician Ronnie Malley play the oud on stage, Northwestern’s Middle Eastern and North African Student Association shared Arabic-based poems with each other ...

Sitting by a river near his hometown in Al Kut, Iraq, at the age of 11, Naseer Shamma could only see himself playing the oud every time he tried to envision his future. “I knew then that the oud was ...

When you think of bagpipes you think of Scotland right? The truth is, you shouldn’t. While it has never been pin-pointed, most academics believe you shouldn’t look much farther than the Middle East.