Fes is one of the holiest cities in Islam. With a university that predates Oxford and Cambridge by three centuries, and was founded by a woman, the city has always been an engine room for the exchange ...

The Fes Festival came into existence as a response to the first Gulf War, given further impetus by 9/11 and is important in reflecting a more tolerant side of Islam, with lots of respect to other ...

U.K.-based DAB station Passion for the Planet joins Radio France Internationale and Al Jazeera as a media partner of the 2008 Fès Festival. Now in its 14th year, the Fès Festival of World Spiritual ...

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 Fes Festival of World Sacred Music was created in Fez, Morocco, shortly after the Gulf War in an effort to connect different cultures via the universality of music. More recently, the festival’s ...

Ten years ago, after the Gulf War, two Islamic scholars decided to start an interfaith music festival in Morocco to promote peace. The Fes Festival of World Sacred Music is now a celebrated ...

Touring edition of the Fes Festival opened with a quietly spectacular performance: Yacoub Hussein, a Palestinian Sufi, and Gabriel Meyer, an Israeli son of a rabbi, standing side by side, raptly ...

The Fes Festival of World Sacred Music was founded during the first Gulf War, with the hope of promoting tolerance and understanding through music. At this year's festival, a New Orleans gospel choir ...

Situated between the cedar-wooded summits of the Middle Atlas and the silver olive groves of the Rif mountains, lies Fes - for many, the cultural and spiritual centre of Morocco. It is also one of the ...

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.