Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fahima Mirzaie performs a Sema dance (Sufi Whirling) in Kabul Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. Taking on an unorthodox task ...

Turkey's mesmerising Whirling Dervishes are visiting Australia to commemorate the centenary of Gallipoli and celebrate the Year of Turkish Culture in Australia. Fourteen Dervishes and a Sufi music ...

With their arms wide open, right hand directing to the sky ready to receive God’s alms and the left hand towards the earth conveying the spiritual gifts to those witnessing the Sema – the whirling ...

When eminent techno DJ and producer Carl Cox embarks on his first North American tour in fifteen years, he’ll be making only a dozen stops, in Mexico, for the Electric Daisy Carnival, and in a handful ...

I’ve always wanted to see whirling dervishes perform the mystical Sufi ceremony known as a sema, in which their series of mesmerizing turns help them, and the audience, reach a state of nirvana. But ...

These dancers can twirl dozens of times per minute without moving an inch from their spot. The al-Kharrat family is one of the most reputed in Damascus for Sufi whirling, boasting 20 dervish dancers ...

Fahima Mirzaei had no choice but to run. The only female whirling dancer in Afghanistan was due to kick off her biggest tour around the country. A group of young Afghans – both women and men – is ...