I first heard Tunisian singer and oud virtuoso Dhafer Youssef’s music on his 2010 release, Abu Nawas Rhapsody. It spurred me to buy an earlier record, Divine Shadows (2006), on which he works with a ...

When it comes to music, Dhafer Youssef is not one to make distinctions. The singer and oud player is one of the rising stars of world music, cheerfully mixing the Islamic sacred tradition with jazz, ...

Dhafer Youssef can't get enough of his new ringtone. In fact he plays it so many times it goes from being funny, through boring, and back to being very funny again. It features a recording of an ...

Over the last decade the oud, the Middle Eastern lute, has become a beguiling and familiar sound on culturally outward-looking jazz recordings. Tunisian player Anouar Brahem has expanded the ...

Although it's a dual-leader album, in which oud player Dhafer Youssef's performance is at least as important as that of guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel, one of Glow's chief causes for celebration is ...

Tunisian oud player and singer Dhafer Youssef will take the stage at Ankara’s Cermodern with his project “Dance of the Invisible Dervishes.” According to the written statement sent by the Altus ...

The guards at the Azhar Park advise you not to waste another LE 5 if you don’t already have a ticket to the Geneina Theater concert inside – it’s sold out, they tell you. Outside the open-air Geneina ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Tunisian vocalist and oud player Dhafer Youssef steeps his compositions in the modes and rhythms of the ...

Paris-resident Tunisian, Dhafer Youssef plays the oud well, but what shines on Abu Nawas Rhapsody are his extraordinary singing & young Armenian virtuoso Tigran Hamasyan's piano. The album, declares ...

World music is a vague, pliable, record-industry term and its ambiguity is perfectly exhibited tonight. While Tunisian singer and oud player Dhafer Youssef and Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel ...

Sufism, the mystical side of Islam, is the inspiration of a musical style that emphasizes repetition and a trance-like intensity approaching ecstasy. Its most prominent style is qawwali, which ...

Muthspiel is Austria's international jazz guitar hero, whilst Tunisian singer/lutenist Yousseff is the only internationally famous musician from the small fishing town of Tabulbah. Together, on Glow ( ...