Naseer Shamma (Arabic ,نصير شمة), is a renowned Arab Iraqi musician and oud player. He was born in 1963 in Kut, a village on the Tigris River. He began studying the oud at the age of 12 in Baghdad, ...
As a presenter, the Marcus Performing Arts Center can and should bring once-in-a-lifetime concerts to Milwaukee. Thursday's night show by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra fit that rubric.
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 ...
BAGHDAD – War kept him away from his beloved homeland for decades. Now, virtuoso oud player Naseer Shamma hopes to help rebuild conflict-scarred Iraq through a series of concerts and other projects to ...
CAIRO, Egypt -- Iraqi musician Naseer Shamma's reputation as a master of the oud, a pear-shaped string instrument, is built in part on a piece he wrote to describe the horrors of war. His "Al-Amariya" ...
Presented by Music Without Borders and the Iraqi Canadian Society The Music Without Borders Festival 2025 and the Iraqi Festival of Toronto (presented by the Iraqi Canadian Society) proudly present ...
DAMASCUS, Syria, December 18 (UNHCR) - Popular Arab Iraqi musician Naseer Shamma on Tuesday launched a fund-raising campaign that he hopes will raise millions of dollars to help Iraqi refugees in ...