Dudu Tassa and how Iraqi Arabic-Jewish music became hip again The grandson of the famous Daoud al-Kuwaiti, Tassa continues the family music tradition, bringing his fans the Arabic Iraqi music they ...

When Israeli rock musician and singer Dudu Tassa said he wanted to rework and re-popularise his grandfather's repertoire of Iraqi Arabic songs from the 1930s, everyone thought he was crazy. But with ...

As the music video begins, the images play in the grainy, flickering manner of an old movie. A group of men carries a child on a bloody stretcher. A man in a black kaffiyeh calls out as he carries an ...

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 own ...

Emirati singer Hussain al-Jasmi has so much love for his neighboring Arab countries. While he famously released songs in the past dedicated to Egypt and Yemen, he's now added Iraq to his "Country Love ...

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"I'm quite a coward," Rahma Riad admitted with a laugh. "I mean, I like taking risks in general, but I avoid reckless ones when it comes to my music career." It's a surprisingly candid confession from ...

Baghdad (AFP) – 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 ...