The South Asian art form known as Sufi music has a centuries old tradition built on poetry and mysticism coupled with specific instruments, meters and repetition. Brooklyn-based Pakistani musician ...
Reporting from Islamabad, PakistanReporting from Islamabad, Pakistan — When Amjad Sabri, one of Pakistan’s best known performers of Sufi devotional music, was gunned down in Karachi, the country’s ...
For Umer Piracha, sufi music was a constant soundtrack as he grew up. He was born and raised in Multan, a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan that’s also home to a rich history of Sufism, a mystic ...
The echoes of Pakistani folk and Sufi music filled the Theatre de la Ville in Paris on Sunday night as celebrated singer Sanam Marvi left a packed audience spellbound with her soulful performance. The ...
The intimate confines of the Charles H. Morris Center played host to one of the top exponents of traditional Sufi music in the world when female Pakistani vocalist Sanam Marvi and her quartet ...
Pakistan's first opera singer and the world's pioneering Sufi Opera star, Saira Peter, captivated audiences at the Sir Syed ...
This concert is part of the New York Sufi Music Festival, spearheaded by Ambassador Abdullah Hussain Haroon, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations, and organized by Pakistani ...
Prominent Pakistani singer Amjad Sabri has been shot dead in Karachi in what police consider an act of terrorism. Two unknown gunmen riding a motorcycle fired on Sabri's car in the southern port ...
The NY Sufi Music Festival sought to combat perceptions of Islamic Radicalism by representing and celebrating Sufi values of peace, tolerance, and respect through music. The New York Sufi Music ...
Amjad Sabri, one of Pakistan’s most well-known Sufi musicians, was gunned down Wednesday in the southern city of Karachi. Sabri, 45, was the victim of what police are calling a targeted killing. Two ...