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CodeDS/UK/21111
NameAbdallah; Tarek (1975); Egyptian oud player, composer and musician
Dates1975
GenderMale (cisgender)
Place of Birth/OriginAlexandria, Egypt (born)
BiographyTarek Abdallah is an Egyptian oud player, composer and musicologist.

He began playing the oud as a teenager, after seeing a comedian playing one on TV. Studying with the Alexandrian master Hazem Shaheen, he practiced 10 hours a day in order to enter The Arabic Oud House, an oud school created in Cairo by the Iraqi master Naseer Shamma. He graduated from there with an excellence award.

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