LAHORE (APP) - The Lahore Arts Council has announced the schedule for the Alhamra Sufi Festival 2025, which will be held from ...

Director Gabo Arora has spent the past few years promoting virtual reality as the ideal medium for evoking empathy. He spearheaded the UN's VR app, which featured two of his films, Clouds Over Sidra ...

Fahima Mirzaie performs a Sema dance (Sufi Whirling) in Kabul Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. Taking on an unorthodox task in her society, the 24-year-old teaches men and women Sufi whirling.

The Alhamra Sufi Festival 2025 in Lahore will feature three days of Sufi music, devotional dance, theatre, and qawwali performances, celebrating Pakistan’s rich spiritual heritage.

Mouled is the celebration of the birth of Mohammed, Islam’s prophet. Worldwide, Muslims gather to hear poems and stories about the prophet’s life, recite the Qur’an, and enjoy festive music and foods.

Dancers perform a Sufi dance at Prince Taz Palace during Ramadan in Cairo, Egypt, on March 19, 2024.(Photo: Xinhua) A dancer performs a Sufi dance at Prince Taz Palace during Ramadan in Cairo, Egypt, ...

A first-hand encounter with the persistence of Orientalism. [ review ] Last month, in celebration of Nowruz, the Persian New Year, the Pouya Musical Ensemble performed at Paris's Théâtre du ...

On July 16, a group of female musicians and dancers will perform the sama, a traditional dance of Sufi Islam, for the first time in Tehran. Thirty-five drummers will accompany the dancers of Ava-ye ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Fahima Mirzaie set up a dance school for women in the Afghan capital last year, hoping to help her students fight depression and find inner peace in a war-torn country where dancing ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — A group of young Afghans – both women and men – is coming together in the country’s war-torn capital to practice a mystical Sufi Islamic dance. The group’s founder says she sees ...