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...Oud (Arabic): Musical instrument of Southwest Asia and North Africa resembling a mandolin

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spellbound by Freshmen | 2/20/2010 | See Source »

Hylton ended up breezing through the first two rounds but tripped up on “oud...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Freshmen Spell For IM Points in Bee | 2/19/2010 | See Source »

...their faces. The trip had provoked the wrath of Zakaria Zubeidi, head of President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement in the area. Zubeidi banished Younis from Jenin, forcing the closure of the music school where she had spent the last six years teaching Palestinian teenagers to play the violin, the Oud and drums. "The children are now crying. They're afraid," Younis told TIME in a telephone interview. "One girl told me she sleeps with her violin hidden under her bed because she's afraid that these men will come in the middle of the night and take it away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Even After Exile, Palestinian Musician Vows to Play On | 4/4/2009 | See Source »

...money. Most of the time the answer they give is a resounding yes. Owned by the French bank Société Générale, Rusfinance is aiming to build a massive presence in Russia. Back in Paris, SocGen's chief executive Frédéric Oudéa even talks about Russia becoming the bank's second biggest market after France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Big Chill | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...About Baghdad,” a documentary on the effect that decades of oppression, war, sanctions, and occupation have had on the capital city. After the screening of “Dreams of Sparrows” on Saturday evening, the festival concluded with a musical performance with an oud, a traditional Iraqi instrument. Hassan M. H. Al-Damluji, a second-year graduate student in Middle Eastern Studies and president of the Harvard Middle Eastern Cultural Association, and undergraduate Tamara Jafar ’09 organized the event. Al-Damluji said that his goals were to provide Iraqi filmmakers with...

Author: By Anthony C. Speare, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CGIS Explores Views of Iraq in Film Series | 4/20/2008 | See Source »

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