Arab Music from Iraq: Rahim Alhaj, oud; Souhail Kaspar, percussion. Part 1 of 2

Published: July 31, 2007, 5:22 p.m.

Iraqi-born musician Rahim Alhaj earned a 2008 Grammy nomination for his CD titled When the Soul Is Settled: Music of Iraq, released on the Smithsonian Folkways label. He studied at the famed Baghdad Conservatory under the late Munir Bashir, who was perhaps the greatest oud (Arab lute) master of the twentieth century. Since arriving in ...