Omar Bashir

Omar Bashir (Arabic: عمر بشير) is an Iraqi-Hungarian musician. He is the son of Munir Bashir, who is widely considered to be one of the most important virtuosos in the history of the oud and a master of the modal tradition of Arabic maqam.

Omar Bashir was born in Budapest in 1970, where he began playing the oud with his father at the age of five. He later attended the Baghdad Music and Ballet Scho… More