Program of Sufi Festival of Fez Morocco

Fez Festival of Sufi Culture

« A soul to Globalization Conference of Fez »

Second edition April 18th to 25th April  2010

Scheduled Program

 



Saturday 18 April 2009
3:00 pm to 3:30
Conférence introduction by  Faouzi SKALI
3:30 - 6:30 pm BATHA Museum
Forum « Une âme pour la mondialisation »
Round Table 1 « Prevent Food Crisis » by Dominique VOYNET
Founder of Political and Enviromental Green, Former Minister of Urbain palnning and Environment of France.  Former Sanit Denis sur Seine Senator Seine-Saint-Denis, France

Nouzha SKALLI
Minister of Social Family development and solidarity in Morocco

Pierre RABHI
Writer and initiator of « Earth and Humanism »

Nizar BARAKA
Minister of  Genearl Affairs and Economy in Morocco

Speaker Assia BENSALAH ALAOUI
Honorary Embassador of Moroco, co-président Wisdom of Peoples and Cultures Dialogue (European Commission),
Professor of Public Law

Moderator Faouzi SKALI

9:00 to 11:00 pm
Concerts « Samaa d’Orient et d’Occident »
Mohammed TARWAT, Saad TAMSAMANI et Omar SERMINI (Morocco – Egypt -Syria)


Sunday 19 April 2009
9:00 am to 12:00 pm at the Medersa Bouanania
Forum « A Soul for Globalization »
Round Table « The End of Capitalism ? »
• Hervé DE CHARRETTE
Former minister of Foregn Affaires and writer Juppe

• Katherine MARSHALL
Professor at Gergetown University, Director of world leader faith and
development forum

• Majid RAHNEMA
Writer, Former minister of Siences and high studies in Iran, Former Membre of Executive Council  at Unesco

• Mohamed BERRADA
Former Finance Minister and Embassador of Morocco in France, professor of Econimics

• Simon Xavier GUERRAND HERMES
Président of Hermes foundation involved in interfaith Dialogue

• Hubert Julien LAFERRIERE
Vice président of Grand Lyon in charge of coopération, président
Organisation mondiale des villes et collectivités territoriales

Modérator Abdou HAFIDI
Politologist, professor of Contemporain Maghreb history at  l’école des langues
orientales à Paris, Producer of TV Program « Islam » in Channel  France 2

4:00 to 5:00 pm
Concert MOULTAQA SALAM ALI ALAOUI (Maroc - France)

9:00 to 11:00 pm
Concert ABD AL MALIK (France - Congo)

Monday 20 April 2009
9:00 am to 12 pm at the Medersa Bouanania
Forum « A Soul for Globalization »
Round Table « Body and Spirituality »

• Fanny DIDIOT-ABADI
Psychothérapisat, founder of International Ethical of formation

• Henri JOYEUX
Professor at the Medicine school of Montpellier Writer

• Mohammed HADDAD
Researcher in Cantic physics

Modératrice Amal Arfaoui
News anchor at TF1 TV

4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Concert of Kora et Chants Tidjanis, Daouda DIEYE
followed by a conférence on Spiritual Culture in Africa by  Aoua Bocar LY TALL
Sociologist, President and founder of réseau femmes africaines

• Salamatou SOW
Professor and researcher at the University of Niamey Niger

9:00 pm to 11:00
Samaa - Tariqa QADIRIYYA BOUTCHICHIYYA (Morocco)

Tuesday 21 April 2009
9:00 to 12:00 pm
Conférence « Les manuscrits d’Ibn Arabi »
• Jane CLARK
Member de l’ Ibn arabi society, Oxford

• David HORNSBY
Membre de l’ Ibn Arabi society, Oxford

• Denis GRILL
Ecrivain islamologue, spécialiste d’Ibn Arabi
4:00 to 5:00 pm
Workshop « Body , Art et spirituality »

• Georges STOBBAERTS
Grand master of Aïkido, founder of Tenchi Tessen Movement

• Mbarek ALAOUI
Master of Aïkido, 8ème dan, disciple de Maître Georges Stobbaerts

• Louise CARA
Artist Painter

• Jean Philippe MOUSNIER
Spécialiste in cultural intelligence

9:00 to 11:00 pm
Samaa - Tariqa CHARQAWIYYA (Morocco)

Wednesday 22 April 2009
9:00 am to 12:00 pm
Workshop « Poetry in a garden »
by Rajae SLAOUI

4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Concert « the Soul garden »
Moneim ADWAN (Ghaza, Palestine)

9:00 to 11:00 pm
Samaa - Tariqa SAQALLIYYA (Morocco)

Thursday 23 April 2009
9:00 to 12:00 pm
Conférence
1st part « Sufism and Reform »

• Eric Geoffroy

writer islamologue, spécialist of Sufism
2nd part

• Mounir Boutchichi El Kadiri
Doctor Phd in theo;ogical sciences from Dar El Hadith El Hassania, doctor in Comparative religionsfrom la Sorbonne

• Abdellah Ouazzani
Chef d’entreprise, enseignant universitaire, président of Moulay Abdellah Chrif foundaion for research and scientific studies. Il est aussi l’animateur Producer odf a TV program (Islam and events) at the Moroccan 2M Station.

• Souada Maoulainine
Conférencière, spécialist of Sufism

• Jean Louis Michon
Writer and specialist of sufism, author of many books of Ibn Ajiba

Modérator Ahmed El Kheligh
journalist and presentator of a TV program Sufi Samaa around the world 2M TV station

4:00 to 5:00 pm
Concert LES RABI’A (West Africa, Maghreb, France, Andalousia)

9:00 pm to 11:00 pm
Samaa - Tariqa ALAWIYYA (Algéria)

Friday 24 April 2009
2:30 pm to 5:00 pm at Batha Museum
Forum « A soul for globalization»
Round table 4 « Beyond globalization, the voice of the planet »

• Bariza KHIARI
Senator socialist of Paris, co-founder of club 21st Century

• Edgar MORIN
Writer, directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS, promotor of a new vision Politics and Civilization

• Marie ARENA
Minister of Big cities in Belgium

• Hassan Abou AYOUB
Former minister, Honorary Embassador of Morocco

Modérator  Faouzi SKALI
9:00 to 11:00 pm
Concert:  Mohammed BRIOUL - Abdelfettah BENNIS

Said CHRAIBI - Abderrahim SOUIRI - Mohssen ZEGGAF
Ensemble arabo – andalous and Samaa of Morocco

Saturday 25 April 2009
9:00 to 12:00 pm at the Medersa Bouanania
Forum « A soul for Globalization »
Round Table 5 « Ups and downs of democracy »
• Assia Bensalah ALAOUI
Honorary Embassador of Moroco, co-président Wisdom of Peoples and Cultures Dialogue (European Commission),
Professor of Public Law

• Benjamin BARBER
American Politologist and writert écrivain américain, professor of Political sciences at Maryland University

• Mustapha CHERIF
Philosopher, théologien, researcher in Human and social sciences

• Pascal BONIFACE
Director of International strategic relations institute (IRIS)

• Mohammed CHABBAB
Maire Regent of the city of Fez

• Jacques SALVATOR
Maire d'Aubervilliers

Modérator Saad Khiari
Writer,specialty Interfaith and cultures dialogue

4:00 to 5:00 pm

Concert « Hommage to Sufi Poets of Andalusia »
Abir Nasraoui - khaled Ben Yahia - Eduardo Paniagua (Tunisie - Espagne)
9:00 to 11:00 pm
Concert « Samaa and whirling Dervishes
Hommage à Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch»
L’ensemble Taybah, with the participation of master Sabah Fakhri (Syria)

 

 

 

 

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