BAGHDAD, Jan 24 — Long uprooted from his native Iraq, Naseer Shamma, an icon of the Arabic oud, has returned home to help rekindle the flame of Iraqi music, snuffed out by decades of conflict.
At nearly 60, the virtuoso who studied under late Iraqi oud legend Munir Bashir still appears in awe of his instrument, as well as those that accompany it. But such nights in Baghdad have become more of an exception than the rule for Shamma, a native of Kut, in the country’s southeast.In the interim, he spent time in Cairo, as well as launching schools of Arabic oud across the Middle East, before settling in Berlin, where he lives now.Aside from his musical mission, his latest Baghdad performances come with another purpose.
As Unicef has pointed out, “decades of conflict and under-investment in Iraq have destroyed what used to be the best education system in the region and severely curtailed Iraqi children’s access to quality learning”.
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