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  • So beautiful

  • he is the best oud player i have ever seen because he is playing with his feelings and the song  is perfect .

  • Big respect from israel.

  • @Bigertom Ditto

  • @eitanyn no i dont get it sorry

  • Sounds like an improvisation to me.Cool sounding instrument!

  • sounds like he is just playing random notes... i don't like this instrument

  • tzalilim kol-kakh yafim

  • thinner necked fretless lute! i bet you could shred on it!

  • כלי שייגרום לכל אחד לבכות :)

    so beautiful it can make you cry!

  • I wish I could have the time to do this. I am "married to my doumbek".

    Serene and beautiful!

  • zablehtin dehedas karabic hesteroric sameg dobidau pethabler

  • צלילים כל כך יפים....

  • 19 People have no Ear

  • والله استاذ ياسامر

  • Very beautiful..So heartfelt...The passion in the rhythm of the song is spectacular!! In the Arabic tounge, Naam

  • FUCK politics, go humans

  • YOU GUYS ARE STUPID!! just listen to this lovley music and put politics aside...if people think this music is a sign of Taliban or terrorisim...let them think that, its their problem, this song is beautiful, and politics has NOTHING to do with it. comment about this song, or get out of here!! >.>

  • @CODMASTA Finally someone gets the point of the video

  • الحقيقة روعة

  • samer take me to eat falafel in Turmous-Aiya

  • What kind of oud is being played here (Egyption, Iraqui, Etc.)?

  • @TheCyrusj12 Bahraini oud :) 

  • I like the sound of a good oud. I has much presence.

  • OOOUUUUUDDDD

  • This man is proof that Arabs can be peaceful.

  • @IsmailaGodHasHeard1 The proof that arabs can be peacefull is that we lived side by side with jews without problem for tousands of years until the zionist wanted to form israel.

  • @simonistic This is true.

  • <3 FALASTEEN <3

  • This man is talented.

  • Great video, I love the very resonant tone of an oud, you should check out Avishai Cohen's latest Album "Continuo" which he recorded together with Amos Hoffmann! ;)

  • isaraeli or palestinian i don't give a shit, music is music, music pertains to no race, people should be like music and flow!

    shalom.

  • Israel and Palestine should be free, you disillusioned people have fought over the same piece of land for centuries! The land doesnt exist for you keep from one another, its for you ALL to share! The Zionists are getting just as bad as the Nazis were, and I come from what was a jewish immigrant family in the US! All this war is for nothing but evil, when can the fighting end and we see each other eye to eye as equals?

    Peace Gods

  • @dirmaster0 give it a thought for a sec. you say israel should be free right? and for every1 to be in. im fine with that. let the palestines be in our country. for real. but, at some point it will get to their heads and start doing whatever they want. there will be no rules, people will be murdered, and the palestines would want to claim israel just for themselfs. and then what? where would we be? in uganda like the first suggestion? we cant! we need to have a country! just for our self!

  • @nadiros222

    No, because the separation of people leads to more conflict, it will never end. If people just realized this Earth was given to humanity to SHARE, not divide and conquer, we'd be a more peaceful society. The IDF has murdered countless Palestinians, as Hamas has done unto the Israelis, more blood spilled over land will not solve the problem. Working together regardless of ethnicity or nationality is the only way to gain peace

  • @dirmaster0 a land can never be SHARED properly. every time when there are 2 diffrent people in 1 place, there will always be fighting. one will want this, the other will want that. thats the nature. if this could have happen, that wouldnt be real. and, about that our army murderd countless palestines and they murdred countless israleis, it's not true. every1 will have a story for what they did. you cant say they did this for nothing.

  • Wow. Fabulous. Really nice.

    And yes, please guys, forget politics and enjoy the music.

    Can't we, at least, agree on nice things.

  • I think it is the quarter tones, that bother me.  I am American, and my whole life I have heard nothing but whole and half tones. The quarter tones sound out of tune to me.

  • נגינה יפה מאוד, מצויינת.

    אבל רמאללה זה בישראל, לא בפיקציה ששמה פלטסין :)

  • @iPodGaming פיקציה?

  • @nadiros222

    אכן.

    תחפש במילון Fiction אם לא הבנת מה אמרתי

  • yes! music transcends politics and cultures. im hispanic but i have heard this in my head before i knew what it was. im so greatful that i have found it here

  • I'm an Israeli myself and I can't understand why you guys always drag it to the same old politics whenevr there's a clip that has anything to do with the Israeli/Palestinian situation.

    I could gives two shits about it right now.

    this guy is absolutely amazing, and I can only hope that I'll be able to watch him perform someday.

    keep up the good work.

    Peace ;)

  • يا سلام على الفن العربي

  • This man is very talented.

  • Aman!!!

  • @MultiGreenRoof 1500 years!!! Humans lived in that region more than anywhere else except for Africa and have being slaughtering each other since, just like their brothers and sisters in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. we humans are disgusting, that is another fact!!

    As for the "WEST", Middle Eastern people made it the "West" when they went there some thousands of years ago; please review the human migration history.

  • I like the Oud, it reminds me of the european lute & viheula. Great composition & very well played. Nice.

  • Stop writing... listen!

  • Such a beautiful sounding instrument.

  • In spite of all the political irrelevant drivel being spouted, in many comments, many others recognize the fundamental truth: the skill of the player and the voice of the instrument soars above it all.

  • Is this an Oud?

    Ooooooud...

  • Where can I buy an oud in the U.S.?

  • Fuck all this political jargon everybody is blaberring about. Just shush for once and listen to how amazing this piece is. How can you not simmer down to the sound of the Oud. It's simply breathtaking.

  • العود وما ادراك ما العود

  • as an israeli citizen, i dont think that arabs are so bad like every1 is saying. i met alot of arabs that are very nice and care the shit out of politics. so if you think that really maters that you talk about it in here then you are totaly wrong!

  • He even does tremolo on the oud?! I didn't know you could do that...

  • @SatanKreator thanks a bunch man

  • Where can we download his music?

  • Why the fuck did politic discussion find it;s way into this video's comments? jesusfuck...

  • @J03SA Nylon is plastic, dumbass.

  • @FuzetsuRed great, now go apply for an award for your intelligence. and noone ever says "plastic strings".

  • so it's like a guitar on shrooms.

  • Very nice... Oud connects all middle eastern cultures. We also use it in Greece a little bit. I have one with plastic chords.

  • Wow. It makes me want to go out and learn how to play one. Amazing talent!

  • how much do one of those cost?

  • Look for Fauziah Gambus.... a very talented girl playing the oud from Brunei Darussalam

  • jason becker favorited your video man

  • @SatanKreator that isn't his real account....

  • Great! Very inspirational

  • wonderful OUD luthier and player Samer Totah ,, no more to say

  • Mashallah, very deep.

  • @LondonBridges14 here here you are spot on this guy has some incredible tallent bless him .

  • Just beautiful music. Oud3

  • very good!

  • ani ohev et ha "bayati"

  • נגינה מופלאה

    so much soul

  • this oud is made by him and I met him last summer and he is the nicest person ever and has a great passion for the oud

  • awesome

  • ايوه عزيزي العود من صناعة العازف نفسه وهو الصانع سمير طاطوس

  • I just bought my father in law one of these. he is from Lebanon

  • omg! i live in saudi and i study politics. Do you honestly think democracy is the way to go in any arab country? anywhere in the middle east or africa even? there is not one successful democracy! Democracy is a way of governing that requires a lot of conditions, cultural exeptance, economical and social factors. The Islamic culture through history emphasized hierarchy, authority and intolerance. so dont sadly come on "youtube!" to preach about it, especially on something u lack knowledge in!

  • @shizzle2nizzle What a laughing-stock you are! "studying politics in saudi" Oh really!! what do they teach you there "Totalitarianism 101", "Anti-humanism 201" and you have book titled "Governance: a dictator's approach".

    I never mentioned democracy in my comment. I just stated the FACT that saudi/arabstan is a shithole....you know it, and every well-read person knows this is true.

  • פשוט מדהים אפשר להמשיך להקשיב לזה שוב ושוב!!

    a true master beautiful work

  • glad to hear an Israeli- i assume - appreciation.

  • Very beautiful !... your oud sings !

  • أعتقد أنّ العود من صناعة العازف نفسه ، أليس كذلك ؟

  • thank you! someone who understands!

  • Great playing bro a real Master !

  • على الاقل انا ما اتكلم انجليزي عشان استعرض عند الغرب

    ياعبد الغرب ياللي مالك هوية  ولا لك حضارة

  • So, this should means that using English (the most global language in the world) is a negative and refused thing to do, isn't it?! What an unbelievable mind you got!

  • this is music . you gotta love it . excellent

  • Beautiful

  • What a wonderful oud player you are, maestro Samer! Zionist hate spreaders are after Oum Kalthoum and now after oud players. What a pitiful way of showing hate.......

  • because he plays mellow and romantic He is good. As far as where he comes from and the whole politics I have to say that I am very amazed at the level of hate toward Israel a country the size of State of New Jersey which managed to be the most democratic country on earth that hosts 35% Muslims of the regions who themselves have admitted that are freest among their Arab neighbors. LETS LISTEN TO THE MUSIC GUYS O.K

  • ITS FUCKING MUSIC!

  • maybe it'll end some day. that's all i hope.

  • الموت لاسرائيل

  • I just came here to hear some great music. Israel's claim is based on documents Jews wrote a long time ago. The claim of the US is based on two documents written two hundred years ago. I'm sure the Iroquois wouldn't recognize the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence as valid or binding. The only reason the US exists is that it has been maintained with brute force. Get the idea?!

  • right, so that means people shouldnt stand up to tyrany? and no, america came as a result of british colonists revolting and creating a country where they happened to find themselves living, for many generations already. Israel, is just thievery. dont compare americas inception, one of true honor and nobility, to that of the piratical, disgusting, hateful genocidal one of israels.

  • You sir, are a biggot. Not much more.

    You have succeeded at 'insulting' me without actually saying anything.

    Your "civility" shines thru ur posts. Maybe I amuse you. You disgust me.

    I don't even know why im wasting my time with you. Go instigate at your mother's house.

    And DONT TALK ABOUT SELF-SERVING, friend. Who doesn't have an agenda?

    Clueless.... go figure.

    I'm done here.

  • Well, it is clear so much of y our time is a waste and, yes, you are clueless. Do you want cheese with your whine? hahaha You view is so self-serving and uneducated. Please quit boring me with your pathetic whining.

  • Your cluelessness is amusing. The Pals need to learn about being civil or pay the price. It only takes one Pals to be a terrorist and kill children intentionally like they have. When the Pals love their children more than they hate the Israelis, their lives will improve. Til then, they will pay a steep price they have earned.

    I think you could use a working education and maturity. But you do continue to be amusing although pathetic.

  • you are such a biggot, it's nauseating.

    The only hater here is you. You dont know shit about shit.

  • You are the nauseating shit... please bore someone else since you have nothing to offer but your hatred and whiny attitude.

  • كل الاحترام لك يا أستاذ سامر ..ولكن ألا تلاحظ أنك تعزف بأسلوب تعبيري ويفتقد للأسلوب التطريبي الذي يعطي العود طابعه الشرقي الخاص ؟؟حتى عندما استخدمت مقام الصبا ..لم نشعر بتلك الأحاسيس التي تتملكنا عند سماع الصبا !.فهل هذا في نظرك تجديد للأسلوب ؟مع الأسف هذا قتل لرونق العود ...

  • يدك على القضيب

  • he s very nice !!! i hope to see him in a duo with Marcel Khalifeh one day...

  • I like the sound of the quarter sharps/flats. It sounds very unusual to my American ears though.

  • I always wanted to know how a western ear would react when hearing quarter tones for the first time ... I guess you answered my question :)

    forgive my curiosity ... but would u think a lot of westerners or at least Americans would have the same opinion ?!

  • Music is an universal language, should be a way of communication for all of us.

    Let's not leave politics or religion divide ours hearts

  • hallo samer ...im a simple man from israel ,play oud all so .i wish we have peace and i can come to rammalla and learn from you.

  • Umm, no. You sound like a nice person alright and it hurts to say this, but the fact that you refer to whichever part of Palestine you're coming from as Israel..My friend, we do not have terms.

  • Are you Samer Totah? Otherwise you could start by letting Samer speak for himself, don't you think so?

  • he's not from palestine, he's from israel. did you misread what he wrote?

  • its open the gate of my heart

  • nice

  • samer ya totah

    come to play with us in el-kuds

  • Hey great music, do you realize that this instrument is considered to be the ancestor of the guitar and other stringed instruments we see today.

  • why cant you stupid people enjoy the music for what it is. the oud is a beautiful instrument, i think this even when living amongst people of such narrow mindedness. fuck you haters, you cancerous sheep are a waste of oxygen.

  • Really excellent music, lovely instrument, beautifully played :)

  • kess omek. o tsamy nafsek 3arabi fashaltna. roo7 6ale3 rojoltek ebmokan 3`air elcomputer.

  • no arabs hate turks asserys hates kurds ok but they are thinking they are turks thats the thing and fuck you all fashist bitches its just important to be a people are you a people or just a fashizt animal?

  • FUCK THE HUMAN RACE

    LONG LIVE ALIENS

  • العازف اوكي بس العود مضروب وأبو كلب :)

  • not a really good takasim sorry

  • Didnt this instrument originate in Egypt?

  • no in syria

  • masallah....great music...masallah

    I am from turkish republic :) everybody should write where they come from...also No place for recism....

    we all live on the same world...may be some people do not remember this simple fact

  • common guys get a life....fuck rasicm.

  • i am a ramallah man myself. it is hard to forgive the injustices done to us by the jews, the US, and the rest of the world. i bear no hate for any culture or religion, but those within them who choose to proclaim themselves better. Yes i feel it unfair that we pals lost our land to the jews, and how the U.S. supported it, but now slaughters and massacres are happening and it is time to stop. arabs are as much guilty for war crimes as much as the jews or americans. we share equal faults.

  • maybe your sister had a civilization in Andalusia

    QUESTION:WHY ARABS INVENTED SOAP?

    ANSWER: BECAUSE THE KURDS SMELL SO BAD

  • shut the fuck up

    kurds are gypsies you came from central asia you speak an irano-aghran language the earliest clay tablet didn't mention you ,the indigenous populations welcomed you and now you're trying to dived their lands fucking bastards Assyrian were there for at least 4000 years it's written on clay tablets

  • how does if feel to be landless?

  • i am an Israeli Jew, whos ancestors come from Arab lands, and we're Arab and Persian Jews, and i can enjoy this Palestinian man's music, why can't you people?

  • well man i do but guys like

    satmjoal want to ignore the oud player and want to spew hate. he is a real peach he wants to kill all jews. me i just like the oud no killing for me of anyone

  • Gerçekten mükemmelden öte bir taksim olmuş.Bir müzik ancak bu kadar güzel icra edilebilir.tebrikler Samer Totah.Bravo...

  • really so i guess you never heard of Jewish Arabs then. i guess the only idiot is you. do realize there were Jewish Arabs in Arabia before the rise of Islam but many converted after the introduction of Islam. why don't you go back to making ignorant comments on other videos. or just enjoy this very nice video of a great oud player. but please don't comment on another video you would just further embarrass yourself by your stupidity

  • simply beautiful.

  • This music is beautiful. It truelly is a shame that people regardless of their background can not appreciate the beauty of other cultures. It is pure arrogence of westerners like us to look down upon Islamic cultures as barbaric and having nothing to offer the world but bloodshed and terrorists. Very similer to the attitude that the Roman Empire had towards any culture that had not yet been assimilated.Once humanity realises we are all dependant on one another for survival there may be peace.

  • so true... i also see many other similarities with our western societies and that of the brutal romans.

  • Aren't you generalizing westerners as all being ignorant in the same was that they label all islamic people as brutal?

    P.S. I'm taking no sides in this. Just pointing out your hypocrisy.

  • while i do not condone isreali action. the arabs in iraq kileed, gaased. buried alive and destroyed thousands of kurdish villages. the kurds had not even fired a missile into arab areas. so cool off man. isreal is no more savage than the arabs and islamists. guess what the kurds feel>

  • Aman yarabbi bu ne güzel bir nağmedir,yüreğinize sağlık.Gerçi anlamazsınız bu mesajı ama olsun mühim olan "aynı dili konuşmak değil,aynı duyguları paylaşmaktır"

  • Mumtaz!

  • Fantastic~!

  • my favorite wallahhh

  • It's funny how you skeak of education, and you actually think that the first time Palestine was created is when the romans expelled the jews. The romans renamed it Palestine as that's what it was called WAY BEFORE Abraham even existed. Who cares about then anyways, Zionists are a bunch of European terrorists that occupy a country in the name of lies and historical myths, and have established a fake Jewish nation on the basis of deception, descrimination and oppression. The gaza events are proof!

  • you are absolutely right ... there is no historical excuse for occupation and killing of innocent civilians (specially children) ... so stop bugging us with your history bullshit and let's speak of human rights.

  • You are absolutely foolish... remember, Arabs/Muslims use CHILDREN to fight their wars of terrorism and also hide behind them using them for cover.. So stop the bullshit about human rights. You clearly have a screwed up value system with little clue as to what is human rights.

  • thanks for the foolish part.

    And please you are not in position to lecture anyone "EVEN US BARBARIAN ARABS" about any value system ... go find yourself one.

    Phalaseniens children has no hope in any future ... your made their live a hell ... that's if your "country"'s army left them alive in the first place ... you should be ashamed. not Rudely lecture me about value systems.

    Screw YOU and your so-called value-system if existed.

  • you have no idea what you're talking about, my friend. open your eyes...

    and know that there's a difference between arabs and moslems. one is a people, the the other a religion.

    oh and also... there's a difference between an Arab and a violent Arab. Same as the difference between a Jew and a violent Jew.

    You cut the bullshit. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. so... after we've cast all our stones, us Arabs and the Jews, maybe we can starting talking properly... on equal grounds

  • yo, man, this israeli jew is enjoying this music. the oud is so beautiful.

  • Israel is known through the world for what it truyl is - a neocolonial terrorist state. They are sewing the seeds for their destruction. Long live Palestine. Look at the spirit of the Gazans - calling out to their Lord in the midst of being massacred. You cannot defeat a people with such a spirit. 'And they planned and you planned, and God is the best of planners' (HQ). Long live Palestine - in solidarity with you from Sydney Australia.

  • very touching, thanks for this enlightement musik , shalom :-)

  • this music is lovely, inspiring.I love middle eastern music, even for a atheist jew I still have the utmost respect to all cultures. I'm one of the minority who believes the various groups should share the holy land, since all of their religions come out of abraham,its a shame people have to be so close minded and embrace separatism..this has why religion has failed us all..from jew to muslim to christian..It holds up the walls between us all..

    We must unite..we cannot leave out the desert power

  • what israel has done today is a shame..the blood of the innocent is being shed..stop the fighting let not another man woman or child die..

  • I think if the Arabs/Muslims stop attacking Israel, they can have peace. Until the attacks against Israel stop the Pals will get what they deserve. Until the Pals love their children enough to stop endangering them, their children will suffer. Why is it so few people complain about the dead Israelis but whine about how the Pals are treated? I support the Israelis but wish there could be peace. But with the Pals, peace is only a dream since they really don't want it.

  • You are indeed ill-informed.. The Palestinians just want a home, a home stolen from them through the act of western powers and given to Israelis..they deserve the Holy Land just as much as the jews, just as much as the christians, they are people too after all, no matter their belief system. The first stage is the air assaults, bombing the Universities...mosques...etc..­.next is the ground offensive, where more and more will be massacred... We need to stop this now, inaction will solve nothing

  • Thanks for your opinion. Yes, it could stop if the Pals would stop using terrorism but that is not likely due to their nature. I agree, the Pals should have a share but only when they stop the terrorism and are willing to share. I think Israel is agreeing with you, they seem to be taking some action. It is reflective of how you can ignore the deaths caused by the Pals but blame Israel.

  • A murder blaming his vicitm's children for trying to revenge.

    What an irony ? :(

  • Irony? Yes, that you have no clue... quit your whining.

  • where can i buy an oud guitar?? i live in california. where do they sell

  • It is Arabic Music man, so what do you want me to say? It is just great.

  • :) I went to a western Unve and I got my Ph.D in history, so don't worry about that. Neteans were Arabs and they were in Syira and Palestine before Romans. Arabs are people who are part of the Aramics and those are part of the Akkadians who are also the fathers of the Babylonians. We know that because 75% of Arabic today is Akkadian then. So Arabs are a name for an older civilization. Syriac people were a tribe just as the rest of the tribes who were part of the Babylonian People.

  • ramclam i just bought one thye are very sof tto play liek a classical but 2xsofter the kleanex of instruments :) lot of fun

  • oud hits the spot when ur drunk best instrument ever made

  • oh HELL YA .. I think becuase it has sharp sounds that rocks you from within.

  • Incredible

    Are there any mandolin players here? The similarities between the instruments are obvious, and I've been tempted to switch to the oud. I've played the mandolin for about five years now, but the strings still hurt my fingers like hell; are traditional oud strings gentler on the finger tips?

  • You use a pick called a risha [feather in Arabic] to play Oud.

  • this is extraordinarily beautiful music.. This music communicates pure love and joyfulness.  It conveys the best qualities of the human spirit.