Long uprooted from his native Iraq, Naseer Shamma, an icon of the Arabic oud, has returned home to help rekindle the flame of Iraqi music, snuffed out by decades of conflict. "When you are in your own country, you feel very high emotions with the audience," the master string player said in an interview with AFP. At nearly 60, the virtuoso who studied under late Iraqi oud legend Munir Bashir ...