This week's show is divided into two parts. In the first half, we hear tracks to compare three solo plucked instruments -- the oud, the lute, and the guitar. Then we feature three songs by Latin jazz ...

Michael Onsy with Albert Mansour, a popular oud-maker in Lebanon facebook / Michael Onsy You’ve probably heard it many times over and didn’t even realise it. But it accompanies just about every type ...

Taking a stroll off the beaten path of the classics finds us listening to rarely heard music for the lute -- and its Arabic precursor, the oud. From a performance in the NPR studios, lutenist ...

The Oriental lute is making a comeback in Iran after decades in the shadows as musicians reconnect with an instrument integral to Arab and Turkish musical tradition in a fragmented region. Known as ...

The conflict in Syria has devastated many of its historic crafts, including the production of the oud, the oriental lute. Antoun Tawil, one of Syria’s last traditional lute makers, waits in vain in ...

The oud (Middle Eastern lute) was represented, in the Oud Festival’s Egyptian music concert, by Taiseer Elias, an Israeli Arab academic, graduate of the Hebrew University, who also directed and edited ...

damascus - Antoun Tawil, one of Syria's last traditional lute makers, waits in vain in his Damascus workshop for orders of the oud, an instrument his country was once renowned for producing. While the ...

Antoun Tawil, one of Syria's last traditional lute makers, waits in vain in his Damascus workshop for orders of the oud, an instrument his country was once renowned for producing. While the conflict ...

DAMASCUS — Antoun Tawil, one of Syria's last traditional lute makers, waits in vain in his Damascus workshop for orders of the oud, an instrument his country was once renowned for producing. While the ...

Antoun Tawil, one of Syria's last traditional lute makers, waits in vain in his Damascus workshop for orders of the oud, an instrument his country was once renowned for producing. While the conflict ...