Fez Festival of Sufi Culture Returns: 200 Artists to Explore "Science and Conscience"

"Science and Conscience" is the theme around which hundreds of artists and spiritual singers from Morocco, India, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Kosovo, Syria, France and Persia will gather. Nearly 200 participants are expected, with a program of conferences, concerts and many other activities focused on the theme of this edition.

This year, the festival will open with an exhibition called "The Cloaks of the Awakened", followed by an Indian sitar concert. In addition to the late Charif Moulay Abdellah Ouazzani, the festival will also pay tribute to the monk who survived Tibhirine, who died in November 2021. For this edition, the organizers are offering an immersion in the Mughal Indian court, with performances by virtuosos of North Indian Hindu music, Qawwali Sufi singing interpreters and Kathak dance.

There will also be master classes, round tables on spiritual initiation through the arts, led by more than 60 speakers from 15 countries. Conferences and debates are planned to allow festival-goers to understand the relationship between science and conscience or between faith and reason through history in Islamic civilization in its connections with various currents of culture and thought, up to the present day.