COMMON GROUND NEWS SERVICE: MUSIC, A BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS
“Music fills the infinite between two souls”–Indian poet and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore
When Parvez Ahmed attended a recital at the Kennedy Center’s “Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World” festival for the Choir Al Farah, a musical group that aims to highlight the reality and the possibility of Christians, Muslims and Jews living in brotherhood and peace, he realized what the quotation above meant. The founder of the choir, Father Elias Zehlawi, believes that all religions share the same spirit of mutual love and mutual respect.
Question to the Blogosphere: Do you think that music can increase mutual understanding and common ground between people of different faiths in the Middle East? Where and when has this been successful? Do you think this effort would be possible under worse circumstances than Syria, such as in Iraq or Sudan?
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