Mid-East & North Africa

Welcome to our newest page! We have been keeping links to frame drumming and Goblet drumming (doumbek, tonbak, Egyptian tabla, etc) for quite some time, and have finally added a culture page to go along.. Please help us populate this page by sending your mid-eastern or northern african website link to stu at rhythmweb..

Thanks to our Tehran correspondent and drum brother Peyman Nasehpour..

The Drum Dojo Persian drumming section is incomparable; Peyman and Paul Marshall put in some very hard work in 2003 on that section..great work, boys..

for Turkish style drumming, we recommend our friend Numan Elyer, an exceptionally strong UK based percussionist.

Links

- These will be more generally Middle Eastern music and rhythm related; for more on the specific instruments, please visit the goblet drumming and the frame drum pages

Links to Middle Eastern Music Sites - This educational site has lots of bad links, but enough good ones to make it worth listing

Middle Eastern music - 82 selected links

Thanks to Chas Whittaker for many of these links

Oman Center for Traditional Music

Moroccan Music

Another Good Link on Moroccan Music

Arab Music - Part One by Ali Jihad Racy, Ph.D. and Jack Logan, Ph.D.