In keeping with the half-mad Moroccan driving m.o., our taxi driver careened and caromed up the twisting road up to the Meredin Tombs, high up above the magical city of Fes. Well into our week-long ...

The Moroccan philanthropist Faouzi Skali founded the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music in 1994. For the past 12 years the programme has included an annual colloquium under the rubric Giving Soul to ...

The intersection between spirituality and world-music is pinpointed in "Sound of the Soul," a handsome docu about the Fez Festival in Morocco. Event, which takes place annually in the North African ...

As the 14th annual Fez Festival of World Sacred Music comes to a close, bloggers – both Moroccan residents and travelers – share their experience with this year's festival. The View from Fez bloggers, ...

Fes was the old capital of Morocco, the University being founded 200 years before Oxford (by two women, incidentally). The winding passages in the Medina haven’t changed that much in 500 years, if you ...

US opera singer Jessye Norman was one of the main festival attractions The week that Saudi Arabia held its first ever conference on interfaith dialogue, Morocco was hosting its 14th festival of World ...

A couple of decades back, one autumnal morning in my flat in North London my fax machine juddered into life. I had been invited that very afternoon to a press conference in Casablanca and I had a ...

Today on Global Notes, Catalina Maria Johnson, host and producer of Beat Latino, takes us to the 20th Festival of World Sacred Music in Fes, historically the cultural and spiritual capital of Morocco.