at METROPOLIS CAFE 1039 W. Granville (red line Granville stop) 18 Dec-15 Jan. 2005

Twenty years of chicago Blues and Jazz.

The photographer Adam, is a writer, photojournalist, working for several European press agencies. He has won several international awards. His photo of Buddy Guy is selected best photo and in Chicago DuSable museum, Kurdish Grand dad and Child won the prize of Evanston art council and it is in their collection. He won awards from, Italy, England and Turkey. He is very active in Human and Environmental rights and Anti War movement. He worked in Freeze movement against nuclear arms, and CISPES movement against the death squads of Salvador, also many years he worked as a volunteer in Marjorie Kovler Center , Survivors of torture.

 Second week of January there will be fillms on endagered indigineus people their survival, environment, and genocidal trend in 21 Century.

Sufism is the most tolerant sect of Islam. They are fathomless mystics, their poetry is full of symbols, their prayers are with music, dance and wooden flute and drum. There is no concept of sinners all welcome, even the groups unacceptable to mainline establishment. They believe the cylices of nature and spirituality. They revolve with music one hand is facing up the God, and the other down the Earth.

To improve oneself one has to meditate, read, and pray with music, in solidarity with others and nature.

They are persecuted even killed by fanatics. It is ironical, supported by Saudi Arabian great money resources, there is no Wehhabi poet known in the west, but the poetry of Rumi without any support, is the most read, and well known poetry and most sold poetry in the west.

(These pictures are shot in their private mescit or chapel, with special permission and they are quite rare photos.)

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Disappeared unexplainedly in 1247 and over the years Rumi composed nearly 30,000 verses expressing his feelings at this loss. Later spiritual friendships again inspired his poetry, notably the epic poem Masnavi-ye Manavi (Spiritual Couplets, mid-13th century), which had an enormous influence on Islamic literature and thought. Late in Rumi's life, or possibly after his death, his followers organized a Sufi sect called Mawlawiyah (in Arabic), or Mevlevi (in Turkish), known in the West as the whirling, or dancing, dervishes.

In the 8th century Sufi monastic communities were founded where devotees practiced mystical exercises. In the Middle Ages the great Sufi orders, which had several million adherents, were established; about 100 orders still exist, many of them in Iran. One of the most influential founders of orders was the Persian poet Jalal al-Din Mohammad Rumi, who, in addition to composing poetry and other works, instituted devotional dances, particularly those of the whirling dervishes (see Dervish); his disciples, called the order of the Malawiya (in Arabic), or Mevlevi (in Turkish), have their headquarters at Konya, Turkey. In addition to the members of these orders, many wandering Sufi mendicants, or fakirs (see Fakir), have appeared over the centuries. Sufism influenced many poets, especially in Persia (later Iran), where the most brilliant poetry has been Sufi.

Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia. 2001