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Hamid Al-Saadi is an Iraqi singer and scholar born in 1958, renowned as a master of the Iraqi maqam, a traditional musical genre. He is the only one in his generation to have mastered all 56 maqamat of the Baghdadi repertoire. He studied under the legendary Yusuf Omar and authored the book "al-maqam wo buhoor al-angham," one of the most comprehensive works on the Iraqi maqam and its poetry. He has performed at various international events and taught at universities in the United States. The products available from the artist Hamid Al-Saadi include CDs.


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