Iranian Women to Sufi Dance in Public………….
“A group of Iranian women are to cross barriers by performing Sama, the ecstatic Sufi dance for the first time in Vahdat Hall, situated in one of Tehran’s most glamorous and important cultural areas. The all-female band Ava-ye Mehrabani (The Call of Kindness)will be accompanied by 35 daf or frame drum players, and will take place on the 16th of July, the band singer and director Soheila Purgerami said in a press release on Sunday. Sufism is the mystical branch of Islam and followers, also called dervish, attempt to discipline both the mind and body in order to directly experience God…….During a 2007 all-men Sama performance that took place in an opening ceremony commemorating the 800th birthday of the Persian mystic poet Molana Jala ad-Din Rumi, criticism was drawn against the organizers for staging the performance…….”
I imagine lap dancing is still frowned upon in Tehran. Same goes for the Tango, and the older mullahs never did the Twist when they had the chance.
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