When Israeli rock musician and singer Dudu Tassa said he wanted to rework and re-popularise his grandfather's repertoire of Iraqi Arabic songs from the 1930s, everyone thought he was crazy. But with ...

MinnPost’s reporting is free every single day, but it isn’t free to produce. Join 4,800 members with a donation right now. DAMASCUS, Syria — When the Iraq War began, Fadi Fares Aziz cut up his flute ...

BAGHDAD _ As the music video begins, the images play in the grainy, flickering manner of an old movie. A group of men carries a child on a bloody stretcher. A man in a black kaffiyeh calls out as he ...

Three months before the start of Iraq’s October protests last year - when thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Baghdad and the south of the country to demand an end to government ...

Against a regional backdrop of war and human suffering, Salah Nasrawi translates a selection of Iraqi songs – one of the most significant forces in the country’s history Little attention is paid to ...

Khaleeji Mix puts together songs from the Gulf region and a couple of Iraqi songs under the title The Sound Of The Gulf. The album begins with a very popular song of Assala, perhaps one of her best – ...

Baghdad: Iraqis, living in hotspot districts in Baghdad such as Doura, Al Saidiya, Al Qazalia, Al Jamea and Al Baiya, have noticed that American army patrols have been playing well-known Iraqi songs ...