Director Gabo Arora has spent the past few years promoting virtual reality as the ideal medium for evoking empathy. He spearheaded the UN's VR app, which featured two of his films, Clouds Over Sidra ...

Thurs 30, 9.30pm: Sheikh Mahmoud El-Tohamy. Fri 31, 9.30pm: Bahgaga band. Sat 1 April, 9.30pm: Al-Nour Wa Amal Orchestra. Sun 2, 9.30pm: Oshaq Al-Nagham troupe, led by artist Mohamed Abdel-Sattar. Wed ...

Dogwoof has acquired rights to Zikr: A Sufi Revival, a multiplayer, virtual reality documentary that premiered at the just-wrapped Sundance Film Festival. The deal, its first of its kind for a VR docu ...

The South Asian art form known as Sufi music has a centuries old tradition built on poetry and mysticism coupled with specific instruments, meters and repetition. Brooklyn-based Pakistani musician ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. According to Asim Gorashi, music is a ladder taking him to the highest levels of spirituality. An ...

THOSE who have devoured his books on India will have noted William Dalrymple's fascination with Sufis and their music. He also presented the superb documentary Sufi Soul in 2008, a visual voyage ...

For those who feel a sense of overwhelm and chaos, mystic Sufi practices provide a pathway to connect deeply with oneself and the divine Do you find yourself caught in a web of thoughts, unable to ...

Past Sundance documentary breakouts "Blackfish," "O.J.: Made in America," and "Weiner" are all part of Dogwoof's catalogue. In a deal brokered yesterday — the final day of the 34th annual Sundance ...

Dogwoof has acquired rights to Zikr: A Sufi Revival, a multiplayer, virtual reality documentary that premiered at the just-wrapped Sundance Film Festival. The deal, its first of its kind for a VR docu ...