POSTED BY NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ASIAN ART:
Learn how communities celebrate the end of Ramadan and the beginning of spring. Explore the holiday through a sonic journey with Listening While Muslim and sample coffee from a local vendor while gathering with friends.
About Listening While Muslim
Listening While Muslim (LWM) is a series of thematic listening parties produced and hosted by Asad Ali Jafri (aka DJ Ase Wonder) and Abdul-Rehman Malik.
LWM is a sonic soul journey that crosses continents, languages, and genres, exploring music at the intersection of faith, culture, and politics. This carefully curated experience brings to life stories of solidarity, culture, and radical joy, featuring special guests and immersive musical explorations.
This carefully curated experience brings to life stories of solidarity, culture, and radical joy, featuring special guest Zarifa Adiba accompanied by Sannan Mahboob and Karamat Khan.
Asad Ali Jafri (aka DJ Ase Wonder) is a cultural organizer, producer, and artist, and Executive Director of Kaleidoscope Dreams Foundation. He has over 20 years of experience as a DJ, curator, educator, and strategist, connecting artists and communities worldwide.
Abdul-Rehman Malik is an award-winning journalist, educator, and cultural organizer, and a Lecturer in Islamic Theology at Yale Divinity School. He founded the Caravanserai Collective and is the host of the Aga Khan Museum podcast This Being Human.
Zarifa Adiba is a musician, an author, and the Founding Executive Director of the Zarifa Foundation. She is the youngest conductor to have led the Zohra Orchestra, Afghanistan's all-female orchestra, at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Her memoir, Playing for Freedom: The Journey of a Young Afghan Girl, has been translated into seven languages.
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