On Wednesday 6 April, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina celebrated the opening of Alexandria Arabian Oud House "I have been aiming for this project for nearly ten years, especially after I received many ...

House of Oud was founded with a vision of bringing two worlds together, the East and the West. In collaboration with a Bahraini Perfume House - Junaid Perfumes, House of Oud has been created to ...

Saudi Arabia announced the establishment of the Bait Al-Oud Arabic Music Institute that aims to promote the region's talents and develop a new generation of musicians. Bait Al-Oud (“House of Oud”) is ...

Gilad Hazan wowed the audience at the Jerusalem Oud Festival with his genre-defying performance, blending Arabic music with house beats, rock, and jazz. Gilad Hazan is a virtuoso oud player. That much ...

The Music Commission of Saudi Arabia and the Arab Oud House, led by the Maestro Naseer Shamma, inaugurated today the Oud House in Riyadh, one of the Arab Oud House's branches in different parts of the ...

Editor’s Note: Each month, Inside the Middle East takes you behind the headlines to see a different side of this diverse region. Ibrahim Abdel-Wahab Abdel-Azeem is one of the last traditional ...

It’s not all about the oud at the upcoming 17th Oud Festival. The pear-shaped string instrument known from Persian, Turkish, Greek, North African and Middle Eastern music is at the core of the annual ...

The oud, a stringed instrument, is believed to date back to around 2350 BC to the Akkadian civilisation located in present-day Iraq. It went on to become a popular musical instrument during the old ...

While forever associated with the Middle East, oud originates from species of Aquilaria trees found in East and Southeast Asia, that when infected by a specific fungi produce the scented wood still ...