Kurdistan participates in Samaa Sufi Music Festival in Cairo
31/07/2012
CAIRO, July 31 (AKnews) - The Nakia al-Qadiriya religious
singing band of the Ministry of Culture in the Kurdistan Region
presented religious chants and songs praising the Prophet Muhammad,
the Caliphs and the month of Ramadan on the theater of the historical
al-Ghouri complex, Qubbet al-Ghouri, as part of the fifth International Sufi Music Festival, Samaa in Cairo.
Director general of the Culture Ministry in the region and the head of
the participating delegation in the festival Kanaan Rashad al-Mufti said:
"We participate for the first time in such international festivals and
the band presented Sufi songs and monologues. The participating band
adopts the Naqshabandi way with the participation of Sheikh Ahmed
Kaznzani.
"We participate in this great festival to inform the people that Kurds have culture, history and tradition.
"There
is common history between Egypt and the Kurdish people and there is
spiritual and emotional harmony between the two peoples. We feel that
our history of Islam is one and there are common things in all aspects.
In addition to that the Kurdish people are educated by Egyptians
through the media, and there are branches of Al-Azhar in the Kurdistan
Region.
"The cultural exchange between Egypt and the region continues and many bands visit us at the festivals that we have."
The
Samaa International Festival kicked off on Sunday under the title "Man
is the Home, and Home is the Man". This session is considered the
largest in the history of the festival sponsored by the Egyptian
Ministry of Culture. Iraq participates with two bands from the
Ministry of Culture of the Kurdistan Region and the Ministry of Culture
in Baghdad.
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