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 ...

Sufi chanting troupes started bringing Islamic traditional zikr (remembrance of God) to the stages of Egypt in celebration of Moulid El-Nabi (Prophet Muhammad's birth). Moulid El-Nabi, commemorated on ...

A few years ago I was watching as an old blind singer carefully measured the distance from his mouth to the microphone with his hand. He paused for a moment, and then began to sing. And what a song it ...

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 ...

Kashmir's Sufi Music Lovers Are Sticking With the Audio Cassette SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz presses a button on his 1970 Sharp cassette player, and with a hefty clack the machine ...

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 ...

As you made your film during the increasingly chaotic backdrop of the last year, how did you as a filmmaker control, ignore, give in to or, conversely, perhaps creatively exploit the wild and ...

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 ...