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...Oud (Arabic): Musical instrument of Southwest Asia and North Africa resembling a mandolin
Hylton ended up breezing through the first two rounds but tripped up on “oud...
...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...
...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...
...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...