Arab World Festival

At the heart of ASHWAAQ, the words of the great philosopher and Sufi mystic Ibn Arabi become breath, vibration, and passage. Amir ElSaffar explores the universal power of love, the inner quest, and the search for unity within the diversity of the world.

True to its vocation of traversing the territories where memory and culture meet in dialogue, the Festival du Monde Arabe presents Narrators of Peace, a living musical project that explores music's power to bring people together across cultural and social borders.

This is an odyssey celebrating the musical heritage of a foundational land, the cradle of civilizations. Between the Tigris and the Euphrates, lyres, harps, flutes, percussion, songs, rituals, and stories have shaped a sonic imagination whose echoes have travelled across the centuries.

At the heart of a program devoted to the dialogue of imaginations and the richness of heritage, a vocal presence of striking rarity is poised to set the city resonating. With Walaa Al Jundi, Arabic song regains its full depth, in a sensitive dialogue between the richness of the great Eastern repertoires and an interpretation marked by modernity.