… by Yousif Nahat, of Damascus …
Welcome to Oudmigrations
As long as there have been ouds, there have been stories about them.
The oldest surviving oud?
… even the oldest surviving Arab string instrument?
Why would an English woman compose music for oud?
…transforming the past…
Oudmigrations launched in Arabic!
It has been some time since we have published a new article, but now, finally, we can announce the launch of the Arabic site! Please spread the word to your Arabic-reading friends and send them this link https://arabic.oudmigrations.com/ This mirror site was made possible thanks to the generous sponsorship of Sheikh Khaled bin Hamad al-Thani. We are…
The Oud at the Junction of the Nile
The Second Festival for the Oud in Khartoum, Sudan
A Tunisian musical icon
… the ʻAbd ʻAzīz Jemaīl Tunisian ʻūd (1923) in the Collection of Jellāl Ben ʻAbdallah
Oud of a virtuoso
… an instrument belonging to Jamil Bashir …
My New/Old Damascene Oud
… from Damascus to Istanbul to New York …
The oud in England
…’an exotic caged bird’…
Salman Shukur’s oud
…a relationship between player and instrument could last after the player himself passed on…
She played them a tune on her oud…
…that would make solid rocks dance.
Instrument collections and their stories
… collections are memories of peoples, each with their own traditions and languages …