Fez sacred music festival, when the soul becomes a communication vector
Morocco, Local, 4/30/2003

"From my Soul to Yours, the Art of Transmission" is the theme of the 9th edition of the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music, to be held next June 6-14 in Morocco's spiritual capital city, Fez.

Artists, singers and music groups from Africa, Europe, the Americas and Asia will flock to the rendez-vous, which has become a landmark cultural venue with a fame going well beyond Morocco's borders.

The festival provides a space for dialogue between cultures and civilisations, said Mohamed Kabbaj, president of the festival. "It is meant to be a platform permitting us to go beyond globalisation towards a more universal and a more genuine concept," he told the press in Casablanca.

In an era where technology has become predominant, "it is importance for this very technology to be rooted at a new cultural level that of sense, wherein the essential is conveyed not by words but rather from soul to soul," he said.

Organisers of the festival want to make of Fez the capital of spiritual dialogue. An international communication network will see the light of day to make of the festival an international encounter of universal cultures, said Kabbaj.

The festival's mentors also see in this encounter an opportunity to contribute to ongoing efforts to correct the image of Islam and Muslims, prey to a fierce distortion campaign in the West.

The city of Fez is the suitable venue to host this kind of events to show that the Muslim culture remains a culture of overture and of dialogue and that Muslims who believe in the principle of difference, accept others, Kabbaj underlined.

Parallel to thefestival, Fez will host a conference, themed "A Soul for Globalisation." The meeting will deal with a wide range of topics including "our responsibilities vis-a-vis the mounting generations," "the spiritual citizenship" and "Education for a world of solidarity."

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