You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. JAFFA, Israel — In a family’s living room in this seaside town, seven people ...

A unique dance performance is coming to Thalia Mara Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 23. But don’t expect eye-catching costumes, a spectacular light show and booming music through a state-of-the-art sound ...

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation” — a cliché yet profound statement. This is certainly true when translating from one language to another. However, what if one translates languages beyond the ...

Ziya Azazi, a Turkish dancer, will perform Dervish in Progress, a contemporary interpretation of the Sufi Whirling dance in Mumbai Sufi dervishes have a mystical, almost esoteric existence in popular ...

The French modern dance troupe Ballet Preljocaj took the stage at Royce Hall, UCLA, last weekend to explore a Westerner’s concept of transcending the ego. On Saturday, the Whirling Dervishes of ...

When Pope Benedict XVI said in the aftermath of his Regensburg lecture that he wanted a “frank and sincere” dialogue with Islam, this may not have been exactly what he had in mind, but here it is ...

As the sun begins setting over his mountainside dwelling, Miki Cohen takes his position under a wrought iron gazebo and slowly begins to spin in the meditative dance of a Whirling Dervish. With his ...

Turkey's whirling dervishes, followers of the 13th-century Islamic scholar, poet and Sufi mystic Mevlana Jalaluddin al-Rumi, will perform their Sema dance without an audience this year in light of the ...

When eminent techno DJ and producer Carl Cox embarks on his first North American tour in fifteen years, he’ll be making only a dozen stops, in Mexico, for the Electric Daisy Carnival, and in a handful ...

Sufism is a teaching based on love. There is a sense of unity of thought which speaks of the fundamental one-ness of all religions. Sufis believe that everyone evolves to a known destiny. For more ...