Year of the 800-year-old poet [Canada]:
`Love's nationality is separate from all other religions.
The lover's religion and nationality is the Beloved (God).
The lover's cause is separate from all other causes.'
–Rumi
Eight centuries after his birth, Sufi mystical poet Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi still speaks to a huge international audience in a universal language.
On Saturday at the Toronto Centre for the Arts, "Whirling into Peace: A Festival of Sufi Music" presents Ahmet Ozhan and his 10-piece Turkish orchestra and whirling dervishes from the Mevlevi Sufi Order celebrating the life of Rumi. [..]
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