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DAMASCUS, Syria, June 11 (UNHCR) - A trio of refugee musicians from Iraq have released their first album on some of the world's leading music-sharing sites and have agreed to use the profits to help ...

One day, when Ameen Mokdad was 10 years old, he found his father hard at work in their home in Mosul, Iraq. Mokdad's father was an artist, and he was frustrated while trying to begin a painting of a ...

The ensemble will perform at the Cairde Festival in Sligo on Friday, 11 July, followed by a show at the Earagail Arts Festival in Letterkenny on Saturday, 12 July. The project, titled Macalla (meaning ...

Macalla, an eight-piece ensemble linking Derry/Londonderry’s North West Folk Collective with artists from Iraq’s Mshakht Collective, will perform at two Celtic Connections concerts in Glasgow, ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - With as many as 15 concerts scheduled in an evening it used to be hard to decide which to attend, and pockets of Baghdad came alive with the beat of drums and twang of Iraqi ouds.

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IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Seven days after the legendary Iraqi singer Sajida Obaid died, women sat wrapped in black veils and abayas, their faces wet at her family home in the northern city of Irbil. Some ...