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)
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