News Iraq Music: Iraqi Musician Plays Ney in Mosul Ruins Two Years After IS
Amid the bombed-out wreckage of a site that once hosted dozens of Mosul’s traditional maqam players, Iraqi musician Saad Rajab Bacha plays his ney flute to remember the city’s glorious days before it came under the control of Islamic State (IS). WATCH: Iraqi Musician Returns to Ruined ‘Maqam House' in Mosul Mosul_Ruins video player. Embed Copy Bacha, 65, fled Mosul in June 2014 after IS fighters overran the city and established a hard-line rule that deemed all musical instruments, including his ney, a violation of Islamic law. When he returned home two years later, he found that much of his
News Iraq Music: Iraqi Archbishop: ‘The Faith Is Alive’ Despite ISIS’ Devastation
Iraq is very big. So why force or surround the Christian people ... Every day this center is full of pastoral activities: catechism, meetings, music. We had first Communion for around 400 children in ...
News Iraq Music: Honor Area Veterans At Gorgas Park Saturday
Attendees will line the Walk of Honor as hospitalized veterans are joined with local veterans who served in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The Merion Concert Band ...
News Iraq Music: How is Iraqi cellist Karim Wasfi using music to fight terrorism?
Iraqi musician & conductor Karim Wasfi is working to bring music to war-torn countries. Since 2015, and after witnessing violence and destruction in his homeland, the respected cellist left the ...
News Iraq Music: Germany murder: Iraqi jailed for life for Susanna Feldman killing
A failed Iraqi asylum seeker has been handed life in prison for the ... acquaintance three months before the attack and had spent time with her, listening to music and walking with her, hand in hand. ...
News Iraq Music: At Tehran symphony, music lovers seek escape from reality
In the first decade after the Islamic Revolution, including the eight-year war with Iraq, pop music disappeared from the public sphere, said Nima Mina of the School of Oriental and African Studies ...
News Iraq Music: West Palm uses music to move homeless from waterfront
At Abu Ghraib in 2004, American interrogators blasted heavy metal to weaken Iraqi captives' resolve. Now the city of West Palm Beach has launched a music offensive, too, playing torturous sound loops ...
News Iraq Music: Remembering Michael Jackson, Medal of Honor ceremony, Cardi B goes to court: 5 things to know Tuesday
The loss of one of the music world's all-time greats — later determined to ... A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. An Iraq War veteran will receive the Medal of Honor from President Donald ...
News Iraq Music: Iranian Motallebi and Iraqi AlHaj forge new musical ground together
He’s recorded numerous albums focusing on the music of Iraq, but AlHaj has also become a master of cross-cultural collaborations. On last year’s “One Sky” (Smithsonian Folkways), he introduced a trio ...
News Iraq Music: Why an avalanche of protest music is again in the air
Is there a formula that explains artistic expression in hard times? Fear and anxiety equal urgent music?"Music comes and goes in cycles," Mike Watt, bassist of the groundbreaking postpunk band the Minutemen, once told the Tribune. "And it gets good only when the people making it can feel the wall against their shoulder."Protest music is once again in the air. And why not? Everything feels unstable, pressure points magnified: immigration policies, racial violence, sexual assault, LBGQT rights,
News Iraq Music: I sneered at Iraq War protest, but I’ll join march against attack on Iran – Jim Duffy
I dismissed Iraq war protesters as the ‘great unwashed’, but Iran ... Some were walking, while others were on board colourful floats. There was music playing, chanting and the piercing screech of ...
News Iraq Music: Conservatives in Iraq's Najaf want to legislate religiosity
Found in: shrines, music, freedom, secularists, najaf, shiites, imam ali Omar al-Jaffal is an Iraqi writer and poet. He is an editor of Bayt and Nathr, two intellectual magazines that are published in ...
News Iraq Music: Iraqi musician Narcy: Exploring Arab identity through music
Yassin Alsalman, also known as Narcy, is an Iraqi musician trying to create a space for voices of the Arab community. Over the years, he has become an unofficial spokesperson for the new generation of ...
News Iraq Music: Trump pardons U.S. soldier who killed Iraqi prisoner
President Trump has pardoned a former U.S. soldier convicted in 2009 of killing an Iraqi prisoner, the White House announced ... night featured more than 500 invited guests from the movie, music and ...
News Iraq Music: In Iraq, religious rap meets a chorus of controversy
Hardline clerics say Islam forbids all music, even in daily life outside the mosque. But other Muslim movements use drums and dance in their worship, including Iraq's Sufis. The "latmiyat" themselves ...
