"I'm quite a coward," Rahma Riad admitted with a laugh. "I mean, I like taking risks in general, but I avoid reckless ones ...

Iraqi pop stars, tainted by association with Saddam Hussein's rule, are slowly making a comeback, but, as in politics, it's the exiles who are hogging the limelight.

BAGHDAD Iraqs politicians, fearing that voters have wearied of speech-making that often proves to be little more than hot air, have hired a slew of singers to woo them. They have bought the pens ...

Iraq's politicians, fearing that voters have wearied of speech-making that often proves to be little more than hot air, have come up with a new strategy. Thursday, June 19, 2025 News ...

Iraq’s politicians, fearing that voters have wearied of speech-making that often proves to be little more than hot air, have hired a slew of singers to woo them. They have bought the pens of poets and ...

With Iraq suffering from sectarian violence, lack of a new government and such basic services as electricity, the arts would seem far down the list of national priorities. But one Iraqi, in self ...

A Melbourne-based film on Iraqi music in pre-Saddam Hussein days reveals the suppressed role of Jewish musicians, writes Arnold Zable. WHEN ACTOR MAJID Shokor fled Iraq for Jordan in 1995, ...

The singers called on Arab leaders to stand by Iraq and Palestine and unite as one. According to the London based Elaph, the operetta originally written by Hilim Baker, was sung at the Cairo Opera ...

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq — Farouk Hassan's eyes well up with tears as he cranks his car's CD player and sings along with the latest hit, a lament to his lost love: violence-torn Baghdad. But it is not ...

IRAQ'S politicians, fearing that voters have wearied of speeches that often proves to be little more than hot air, have hired a slew of singers to woo them. Deals of the Week.