From now on, adjust your maps... according to the British Satellite News site... Morocco is in the middle east... (yawn) When will they start teaching geography in British schools again?
MIDDLE EAST MUSIC COMES TO THE UK
Category: Culture
London
The beautiful sounds of music from Morocco is filling the courtyards outside the famous British Library; site of a major exhibition on the world’s great religions and religious scripts.
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The British Library in London has once again turned its piazza into a public open space for a week of lunchtime and evening concerts . There's a spiritual theme this year to coincide with a major exhibition on the world’s great sacred scripts and religions..
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A stone's throw from the urban rush of London's Euston Road something spiritual was happening.
In the Piazza of the British Library the statue showed Isaac Newton undisturbed from his contemplation of mathematical matters. And the audience was gathering from this part of the city to be transported for a moment, away from the busy labours of their own lives.
SOT: (English Speech) super: Heather Norman, British Library
"We have got a very special group. the Sayed Temsamani Group .They have come over from Morocco and they are really a star attraction of the Fes festival of sacred music that takes place in Fes in Morocco every year. And we are very lucky to have them.They are co-sponsored by the British/Morocco Society and the British Library."
"And the sort of music play, what is it?"
"Well it's called Sufic music and it comes from the Islamic tradition.It is an expression of the Divine and you have to hear it to appreciate it. So it ties in , of course, with our major exhibition on Judaism, Christianity and Islam. "
The sound of sufi is to bring people closer to inner truths.
Hopefully someone will point out that there are geographic truths as well!
Tags: Moroccan Morocco Fes, Maghreb news
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