Ahmed Mukhtar : Childhood

Ahmed Mukhtar was born 1969 in Baghdad and has played the Oud and Arabic percussion since the age of ten. He has worked with many folk music groups and musicians in Baghdad. He studied Oud and percussion with the masters Ganim Hadad and Jameel Jerjis and graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad. Later he studied at the London College of Music.
At SOAS, the School of Oriental and African Studies, he obtained a masters degree in performance, including Middle Eastern and Arabic music.
He is currently teaching Oud, percussion and Arabic music theory in many places in London, England. The UN chose Ahmed and sixteen other musicians from all over the world to release a CD for the benefit of the victims of terrorism and wars. "Childhood" is from Ahmed's beautiful cd, "The Road To Baghdad".

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[zeinamidhat]

amazin !