In this photo taken Saturday, June 20, 2015, Mahmoud Abdulnabi builds an oud at his workshop in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq is widely believed to be the birthplace of the oud, an ancestor of the guitar and a central instrument in Middle Eastern music. The oldest known image of an oud is a 5,000-year stone carving found in southern Mesopotamia depicting a woman strumming the instrument on a boat. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)

In this photo taken Thursday, June 18, 2015, Oud maker Mahmoud Abdulnabi works in his shop in Baghdad, Iraq. Abdulnabi is one of the last craftsmen in Baghdad who carves ouds by hand. “Our brothers, the makers in Syria, Turkey and Egypt, might produce 12 pieces a day using machines”, Abdulnabi said. “We produce one or two pieces in a month”. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)

In this photo Saturday, June 20, 2015, Oud maker Mahmoud Abdulnabi uses fire to bend wood to shape at his workshop in Baghdad, Iraq. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)

In this photo taken Saturday, June 20, 2015, Mahmoud Abdulnabi, builds an oud at his workshop in Baghdad, Iraq. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)

In this photo taken Thursday, June 18, 2015, Bassam Salim, right, and Mahmoud Abdulnabi , left, play on ouds at Abdulnabi's workshop in Baghdad, Iraq. The Islamic State group has banned music in the third of Iraq under its control, but in Baghdad a growing number of musicians and other artists are defying the extremists, hoping to revive a rich culture smothered by decades of war. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)

In this photo taken Saturday, June 20, 2015, Mahmoud Abdulnabi tries out an oud, an Arabic instrument related to the lute, at his workshop in Baghdad, Iraq. “The oud is different than other musical instruments”, said Abdulnabi, who has crafted ouds played by some of Iraq's best known musicians, many of whom look down from headshots on the walls. “If you feel joyful, it can play your joy. If the circumstances are sad it can play your sorrow and... help to empty whatever is in your chest”. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)

In this photo taken Saturday, June 20, 2015, Mahmoud Abdulnabi works on an oud, an Arabic instrument related to the lute, at his workshop in Baghdad, Iraq. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)

In this photo taken Saturday, June 20, 2015, Mahmoud Abdulnabi, holds an oud, an Arabic instrument related to the lute, at his workshop in Baghdad, Iraq. His business suffered during the sectarian violence that erupted after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, when Sunni and Shiite extremists threatened musicians and drove them underground. Many of the country's top musicians fled, and parents kept their children from taking up music for fear of attacks. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)