Faouzi SkaliBrainchild of Sufi scholar, Faouzi Skali, the 3rd annual Fes Festival of Sufi Culture will be held from 18-25 April. The programme promises some fascinating discussion topics and superb concerts, including various Sufi brotherhoods from Morocco and Algeria, and the Egyptian master, Cheikh Ahmad al-Tuni.
The conference will be held in the Bouanania Medersa, and all the concerts in the Batha Museum.
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a colourful audience at last year's festivalProvisional Programme:
Saturday 18 April
16h00-17h00 INTRODUCTION
Faouzi Skali (Forum President)
Politics and the Economy: Levers towards Spirituality?
17h30-19h00 FORUM: A Soul for Globalisation - Round Table 1
Preventing the food crisis
Dominique Voynet, founder of green political and ecological movement, former Minister of Land Management & the Environment in France, senator for Seine-Saint-Denis
Pierre Rabhi, writer, founder of 'Terre & Humanisme' movement
Nouzha Skalli, Minister of Family Social Development & Solidarity
Pascal Boniface, director of Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques (IRIS) and professor at Institut d'Etudes Européenes
21h00-23h00 CONCERT
Mohammed Tarwat, Saad Tamsamani & Omar Sermini (Morocco/Egypt/Syria)
Songs of East and West
Sunday 19 April
09h00-12h00 FORUM: A Soul for Globalisation - Round Table 2
The end of capitalism?
Majid Rahnema, writer, former Minister of Science & Higher Education in Iran and professor at the American University of Paris
Hervé de Charette, former Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Juppé government, writer
Katherine Marshall, professor at Georgetown University, Director of the Forum, world leader faith and development
Mohamed Berrada, former Minister of Finance and Moroccan Ambassador in Paris, professor of economics
16h00-17h00 CONCERT
Abir Nasraoui & Curro Piñana (Tunisia/Spain)
Tribute to Ibn Arabi
21h00-23h00 CONCERT
Abd al Malik (France/Congo)
Monday 20 April
09h00-12h00 FORUM: A Soul for Globalisation - Round Table 3
Body & Spirit
Henri Joyeux, professor at the Medical Faculty at Montpellier, initiator of the series 'Health, Love & Sexuality', writer
Fanny Didiot-Abadi, psychotherapist, founder of the Centre Ethique International de Formations, and the Association Action Ethique Humanitaire
16h00-17h00 CONCERT
Les Rabia
21h00-23h00 PERFORMANCE
Qadiriyya Boutchichiyya Brotherhood (Morocco)
Tuesday 21 April
09h00-12h00 DISCUSSION: The Manuscripts of Ibn Arabi
David Hornsby, member of the Ibn Arabi Society, Cambridge
Denis Grill, writer on Islam, Ibn Arabi specialist
16h00-17h00 WORKSHOP: Body, art & spirituality
Georges Stobbaerts, Aikido Grand Master, founder of the Tenchi Tessen movement
Mbarek Alaoui, 8th Dan Aikido Master, disciple of Grand Master Georges Stobbaerts
21h00-23h00 PERFORMANCE
Charqawiyya Brotherhood (Morocco)
Wednesday 22 April
09h00-12h00 WORKSHOP: Poems in a Garden
presented by Rajae Slaoui
16h00-17h00 CONCERT
Delgocha (Iran)
21h00-23h00 PERFORMANCE
Wazzaniyya & Saqalliyya Brotherhoods (Morocco)
Thursday 23 April
09h00-12h00 DISCUSSION: Sufism & the Reform of Islam
Cheikh Khaled Bentounes
Eric Geoffroy, writer on Islam, Sufi specialist
16h00-17h00 CONCERT: Music & Chants of the Tidjanis
Daouda Dieye
followed by a discussion on the spiritual culture of Africa, with
Aoua Bocar Ly Tall, sociologist, founding President of African Women's Network
Salamatou Sow, researcher and teacher at the University of Niamey, working towards the knowledge and preservation of the Peul culture of Niger
21h00-23h00 PERFORMANCE
Alawiyya Brotherhood (Algeria)
Friday 24 April
16h00-17h00 FORUM: A Soul for Globalisation - Round Table 4
Democracy: the good and the bad
Assia Alaoui Bensalah, Moroccan roving Ambassador, Co-president of the Groupe des Sages pour le Dialogue des Peuples et des Cultures (EU), professor of law
Emmanuel Todd, politician, demographer, sociologist and French essayist
Benjamin Barber, politician and American writer, professor of Political Science at the University of Maryland, President of the international colloquium, Interdependent Day
Salman Shaikh
Hassan Ibn Ayyoub
21h00-23h00 CONCERT
Cheikh Ahmad al-Tȗni (Egypt)
Saturday 25 April
09h00-12h00 FORUM: A Soul for Globalisation - Round Table 5
The civilisation of globalisation
Edgar Morin, writer, Research Director Emeritus at CNRS, promoter of a new vision of development known as the 'politics of civilisation'
Bariza Khiari, well-known commentator in French politics on Muslim culture, socialist senator for Paris, co-founder of Club 21ème Century
Basma el Husseiny
16h00-17h00 CONCERT
Ali Alaoui (Morocco/France)
Moultaqa Salam
21h00-23h00 CONCERT
Taybah Ensemble, with Sabah Fakhri (Syria)
Tribute to Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch
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