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Adham Center and Performing and
Visual Arts Department Co-Sponsor Rumi Festival
Two leading performing
artists, the well-known American poet Daniel Abd al-Hayy Moore and Cairo's storyteller
Chirine Al Ansary, were featured at a Rumi Festival at the American University
in Cairo (AUC). The festival, a two-day affair, honors the great Sufi poet Jalaluddin
Rumi, whose translated poems are the most popular poetry in the United States
and whose work has inspired an interest in Islamic mysticism among hundreds of
thousands of readers in the West.
On Monday February 11,
the documentary film "Rumi, the Wings of Love," written, produced, and
directed by Shems Friedlander, an author and the director of the Apple Center
for Graphic Communication at AUC, was screened at AUC's Falaki Main Stage Theater.
Prior to the screening, Al Ansary, Moore, and Abdallah Schleifer joined Friedlander
in reading selections from Rumi's poetry.
The next evening was the
opening reception of the Sony Gallery exhibit "The Garden of Dervishes"
by Shems Friedlander, which included photographs of the whirling dervish disciples
of Jalaluddin Rumi. Moore was the major reader in the second day's event; Friedlander
and Schleifer joined him in reading Sufi poetry dedicated to Rumi.
The Sony Gallery for Photography
is located on the Main Campus of the American University in Cairo and is part
of the Adham Center for Television Journalism. Gallery hours are Sunday through
Thursday, 9 am-12 pm and 6 pm-9 pm.
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