Anouar Brahem

Anouar Brahem is a Tunisian oud player and composer, born in the Medina of Tunis in 1957. He trained at the National Conservatory in Tunis and with the oud master Ali Sriti, and has built a long body of work for ECM that brings Arabic classical music together with jazz. Brahem spent several years in Paris in the early 1980s, working with Maurice Béjart and on Gabriel Yared's score for Costa-Gavras's Hanna K., and later wrote music for Tunisian films such as Moufida Tlatli's Les Silences du Palais.