My Top Tracks: Anouar Brahem, The Astounding Eyes of Rita

This is the 8th post on My Top 100 Tracks I had an oud . It's a Middle-Eastern lute-like instrument. Roundabout 2000 or so I was given one as a gift. There are various types and mine was an Arabic oud from Egypt. I meant to learn how to play it. I can play the guitar at a very basic level, so thought that would help me get started. But I had enough on my plate as a head of department at my…