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Oriental lute makes comeback on Iran music scene AFP 2 hrs ago AFP © ATTA KENARE The Oriental lute known as the oud in Arabic, commonly called the barbat in Persian, is making a comeback in Iran 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 oud in Arabic, it is commonly called the barbat in Persian, although some would a...

Play it ‘oud’ By AFP Published: Apr 20, 2021 06:53 PM A musician plays a newly made oud. Photos: AFP A man plays the flute in the Maranjab desert in Iran. Above: A musician plays a newly made oud. Photos: AFPThe 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 barbat in Persian, although some would argue the instruments differ slightly. "The ...

Oriental lute makes comeback in Iran AFP, TEHRAN 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 oud in Arabic and Turkish, it is commonly called the barbat in Persian, although some would argue that the instruments differ slightly. “The number of [ oud] students has increased considerably over the past 15 years or so; before, a known teach...

Ireland added the United States, Canada, Belgium, France and Italy to its list of countries where arrivals will be subject... Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi called the Tuesday meetings “constructive” in remarks to Iranian state television, a word echoed by US State Department spokesman Ned Price. “It is a welcome step, it is a constructive step, it is a potentially useful step as we seek to determine what it is that the Iranians are prepared to do to return to compliance ...

A display featuring missiles and a portrait of Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is seen at Baharestan Square in Tehran, Sept. 27, 2017. Photo: Nazanin Tabatabaee Yazdi / TIMA via Reuters. Iran‘s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency on Friday rejected the UN atomic watchdog chief’s suggestion that reviving Iran’s nuclear agreement after a new US administration comes to power would require striking a new deal. In an interview with Reuters on Thursday, Rafael Grossi, who heads...

A display featuring missiles and a portrait of Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is seen at Baharestan Square in Tehran, Sept. 27, 2017. Photo: Nazanin Tabatabaee Yazdi / TIMA via Reuters. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday that Tehran’s missile program was non-negotiable and that US President-elect Joe Biden was “well aware of it.” Biden’s victory has raised the possibility that Washington could rejoin a deal Iran reached with world powers in 2015, and he appears to see a ret...