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 ...

Thurs 30, 9.30pm: Sheikh Mahmoud El-Tohamy. Fri 31, 9.30pm: Bahgaga band. Sat 1 April, 9.30pm: Al-Nour Wa Amal Orchestra. Sun 2, 9.30pm: Oshaq Al-Nagham troupe, led by artist Mohamed Abdel-Sattar. Wed ...

Jennifer Tiexiera produced the project created by Sensorium, Superbright and Tomorrow Never Knows in partnership with BoomGen Studios and 1001 Media. Executive producers are Reza Aslan, Mayhad Tousi, ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. According to Asim Gorashi, music is a ladder taking him to the highest levels of spirituality. An ...

A few years ago I was watching as an old blind singer carefully measured the distance from his mouth to the microphone with his hand. He paused for a moment, and then began to sing. And what a song it ...

As you made your film during the increasingly chaotic backdrop of the last year, how did you as a filmmaker control, ignore, give in to or, conversely, perhaps creatively exploit the wild and ...

Filmmaker and designer Muzaffar Ali’s autobiography reminisces about his childhood and the journey of his films, and reveals his enduring love for poetry and devotion to Sufism Learning is an eternal ...

For Umer Piracha, sufi music was a constant soundtrack as he grew up. He was born and raised in Multan, a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan that’s also home to a rich history of Sufism, a mystic ...

For those who feel a sense of overwhelm and chaos, mystic Sufi practices provide a pathway to connect deeply with oneself and the divine Do you find yourself caught in a web of thoughts, unable to ...

Dogwoof has acquired rights to Zikr: A Sufi Revival, a multiplayer, virtual reality documentary that premiered at the just-wrapped Sundance Film Festival. The deal, its first of its kind for a VR docu ...