Naseer Shamma (Arabic ,نصير شمة), is a renowned Arab Iraqi musician and oud player. He was born in 1963 in Kut, a village on the Tigris River. He began studying the oud at the age of 12 in Baghdad, ...

Iraq's Naseer Shamma, musician and famed oud player, will perform at El Sawy Culturewheel on Thursday 27 February. Shamma is most celebrated for giving the traditional string instrument a more ...

Quarter Tone includes over 60 of Shamma’s acrylic paintings, many incorporating the sawdust of the oud. Shamma’s inaugural solo exhibition, Half Life, was held in Abu Dhabi in February 2024 ...

He studied the oud with Ahmed Mukhtar in London, with Nihad El-Sayed and the renowned virtuoso Naseer Shamma at the Arab Oud House in Cairo and with the Turkish oud master Yurdal Tokcan in ...