The discovery of oud is steeped in folklore, with stories of ancient traders and travellers drawn by the captivating scent of burning agarwood, leading them on quests to find its source.

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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 silent in ...

The oud, a kind of fretless guitar with an egg-shaped body, has been played throughout the Middle East and North Africa for centuries. In Anouar Brahem's home country of Tunisia, the oud in ...

Now, the West is obsessed with the scent, vying to outdo the East, evident with recent examples of Tom Ford’s Oud Wood (2007), Dior’s Oud Ispahan (2012), and Gucci’s Intense Oud (2016). Stay ...

The ancient oud, as if hurled from Arabia through the centuries, now finds itself in the loving hands of Simon Shaheen in a tiny walk-up in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Shaheen has displayed the range and ...

STORY: Riyadh's recent oud exhibition was a haven for lovers of the ancient stringed instrument Date: March 11, 2023 in a country where the public appreciation of music has been slow to make an ...

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 silent in much ...