A young Egyptian lady was playing a piece of music on the oud, an ancient Arabian musical instrument, at the Arabic Oud House for teaching oud playing in a historical area of the Egyptian capital ...

CAIRO — An Egyptian girl plays music on oud, an ancient Arabic musical instrument, at the Arabic Oud House in a historical area of Cairo. The piece she is playing is the Chinese folk song Molihua ...

A year after Ziad Rahbani's death on 26 July 2025, three Egyptian artists reflect on their encounter with the legendary ...

ALBAWBA - An Egyptian court sentenced composer Ahmed Hegazy to 6 months in jail, on a bail of 2,000 Egyptian pounds ($64.64) after he appeared in a video reciting the Qur’an to oud melodies. According ...

Legendary Pandit Shivkumar Sharma's son, Rahul Sharma tells TOI that his latest album features the Egyptian Oud, among other instruments. The bass sounds of the Egyptian oud swirling with the ...

Every Sunday, 8pm: The Nile Troupe for Folk Instruments performs dances and songs from Upper Egypt on mizmar, tabla and other traditional musical instruments. Every Friday, 8pm: “Alaragouz wa Khayal ...

Festival organizers and artistic directors continually grapple with the challenge of introducing more contemporary, often left-field, works into their programs alongside the proven crowd pullers.

The Australian embassy in Doha organised the visit of Australian-Egyptian oud player, Joseph to Qatar from May 20-21. He performed at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha. The concert was attended by 200 ...

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Shahd Hesham, an oud player and teacher, plays the oud at Arabic Oud House in Cairo, Egypt, on Sept. 24, 2022. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa) A young Egyptian lady was playing a piece of music on the oud, an ...