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.

The Fes Festival came into existence as a response to the first Gulf War, given further impetus by 9/11 and is important in reflecting a more tolerant side of Islam, with lots of respect to other ...

Ismael's family were members of two Sufi sects, the Aissawa and the Hamadashas, the latter founded in the 18th century by Sidi Ali Ben Hamadasha. The Aissawa sect is older and centred on the cult of ...