Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “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 ...

DAMASCUS, Syria, June 11 (UNHCR) - A trio of refugee musicians from Iraq have released their first album on some of the world's leading music-sharing sites and have agreed to use the profits to help ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — In a Baghdad workshop plastered with black-and-white photos from a more peaceful time, Mahmoud Abdulnabi hand-carves a wooden oud, a string instrument with ancient roots that has fallen ...

(MENAFN- Daily News Egypt) In a fast-moving artistic landscape driven by algorithms and fleeting trends, Iraqi singer Humam Ibrahim continues to move at his own pace, guided not by noise, but by ...

On Thomas Ades’s piano quintet, Peter Maxwell Davies’s Naxos Quartet No. 3, two string quartets of Christos Hatzis, and David Del Tredici’s Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter. Have a look at some ...

Virginia Tech hosted “Sounds of Desire” on Saturday, a one-woman show accompanied with traditional Iraqi music. The performance, which started touring in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2003, depicts the lives ...

When Americans are questioning whether pre-emptive strikes against onetime-ally dictators is in direct violation of international law, it seems frivolous to focus our attention span on (insert snarl) ...

From Civil War sheet music to Vietnam radio and Iraq-era digital media, the entertainment that became morale equipment. War has always had a soundtrack. It has also had a bedside table. In every major ...

Rahim Alhaj was born and raised in Baghdad and began studying the oud when he was nine years old. He attended the Baghdad Conservatory of Fine Arts, where he trained under the renowned Munir Bashir, ...