Director Gabo Arora has spent the past few years promoting virtual reality as the ideal medium for evoking empathy. He spearheaded the UN's VR app, which featured two of his films, Clouds Over Sidra ...

Fahima Mirzaie performs a Sema dance (Sufi Whirling) in Kabul Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. Taking on an unorthodox task in her society, the 24-year-old teaches men and women Sufi whirling.

A mesmerising video of a Sufi dancer is going viral on social media, capturing the traditional Sufi dance with a fiery twist. The clip shows a dancer performing the spiritual whirling ritual known as ...

Sun May 11, 2025 07:18 PM Last update on: Sun May 11, 2025 07:25 PM Drawing from Sufi philosophy and fusing classical and contemporary dance traditions, Dilnawaz offers not just a spectacle, but an ...

Devotees pass walk through gate at a checkpoint as they arrive to attend the celebrations of the three-day annual festival or 'Urs' of famous saint Hazrat Ali Hajveri, popularly known as Data Ganj ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — A group of young Afghans – both women and men – is coming together in the country’s war-torn capital to practice a mystical Sufi Islamic dance. The group’s founder says she sees ...

Drumming, dancing, and bright lights. Pakistan’s centuries-old tradition of honoring Sufi saints comes alive during annual festivals known as Urs. In the eastern city of Lahore, as many as one million ...