From self-doubt to self-definition, the singer on staying grounded, motherhood and the sound of something lasting.

An Iraqi singer's bittersweet homecoming ... “I was told I was on a list of singers to be killed,” he says. So with little ceremony, Sultan left Baghdad on July 1, 2003, ...

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 — War kept him away from his beloved homeland for decades. Now, virtuoso oud player Naseer Shamma hopes to help rebuild conflict-scarred Iraq through a series of concerts and other ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...