Fes was always a fascinating city, but just as Morocco itself is at a central point between the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa and Europe, Fes itself is the centre and heart of Morocco, one of the three ...

In keeping with the half-mad Moroccan driving m.o., our taxi driver careened and caromed up the twisting road up to the Meredin Tombs, high up above the magical city of Fes. Well into our week-long ...

For various reasons, Fes, Morocco isn't the most obvious place to stage a jazz festival. Unlike Moroccan cities like Tangier, Casablanca and Marrakech, Fes' charms are more ancient than modern or ...

U.K.-based DAB station Passion for the Planet joins Radio France Internationale and Al Jazeera as a media partner of the 2008 Fès Festival. Now in its 14th year, the Fès Festival of World Spiritual ...

The Fes Festival of World Sacred Music was created in Fez, Morocco, shortly after the Gulf War in an effort to connect different cultures via the universality of music. More recently, the festival’s ...

Fes is one of the holiest cities in Islam. With a university that predates Oxford and Cambridge by three centuries, and was founded by a woman, the city has always been an engine room for the exchange ...

Ten years ago, after the Gulf War, two Islamic scholars decided to start an interfaith music festival in Morocco to promote peace. The Fes Festival of World Sacred Music is now a celebrated ...

Of course, Paul Bowles was attracted to Fez. So was Edith Wharton. And so continue to be hundreds of thousands of tourists who visit the Moroccan city that's famous for its 1,000-year-old medina (the ...

Touring edition of the Fes Festival opened with a quietly spectacular performance: Yacoub Hussein, a Palestinian Sufi, and Gabriel Meyer, an Israeli son of a rabbi, standing side by side, raptly ...

Today on Global Notes, Catalina Maria Johnson, host and producer of Beat Latino, takes us to the 20th Festival of World Sacred Music in Fes, historically the cultural and spiritual capital of Morocco.