سمير طهار {Samir Tahar} (b. 1940) is an Algerian oud player.

Tahar was born in Mostaganem, a Western Algerian town on the Mediterranean. He came from a family of musicians, and attended the El-Masrah Essaidia school of music, where he was taught the rudiments of traditional Arabo-Andalusian singing and how to play the oud. He then went on to study music at the Institute of Arab Folk Music in Oran, where he was introduced to the art of taqasim. He has played the oud at music festivals in the Arab World and Europe, and has given a number of lectures. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.