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In a modern world filled with global uncertainty, inter-religious misunderstanding and subsequent animosity, music is a rare universal truth. Realizing the mystic words of medieval Muslim poet Jalal ...

Imagine a room full of men, standing quietly, dressed in tall white conical headdresses, each with a long black cloak over white robes reaching to the ground. Their arms are crosswise over their ...

BEIRUT: The first time ney virtuoso Kudsi Erguner traveled from Istanbul to Paris to perform a concert of Sufi dervish music, the Turkish Embassy in France gave him and his fellow musicians an ...