Pictures That Tell a Story Nick Fleming talks to ISF About Nick Fleming Nick Fleming is a photographer based in London. He has given lectures at both the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Royal Geographical Society, and has exhibited at the Indian High Commission. Website: https://nickfleming.com/ 1. India and London are the two [...]
'I Had to Dig Below the Anecdotes' Esther Freud talks to ISF About Esther Freud Novelist Esther Freud became well known with her first book, Hideous Kinky (1992), an account of her travels around Morocco in the 1960s with her mother, in search of Sufi masters. The story was later turned into a film [...]
About Coleman Barks A noted American poet in his own right, Coleman Barks is widely credited with having made Rumi’s poetry accessible to the Occidental world. Born and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Barks does not read or speak Persian – the language of Rumi’s poetry. Despite this, over decades he has worked painstakingly with scholarly [...]
Where Cultures Mix Ed Grazda talks to ISF About Ed Grazda Ed Grazda was born in New York in 1947. He has photographed extensively around the world, from Mexico to Afghanistan, and across much of Latin America and Asia. His work forms parts of collections in the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum [...]
Cultural Crossroads During his lifetime Idries Shah promoted contacts and connections between different traditions around the world, believing this to be an important element in the advancement of human culture. In this spirit, The Idries Shah Foundation has created ‘Cultural Crossroads’, a website forum where people from many walks of life are invited to [...]
Cultural Crossroads During his lifetime Idries Shah promoted contacts and connections between different traditions around the world, believing this to be an important element in the advancement of human culture. In this spirit, The Idries Shah Foundation has created ‘Cultural Crossroads’, a website forum where people from many walks of life are invited to [...]
Cultural Crossroads During his lifetime Idries Shah promoted contacts and connections between different traditions around the world, believing this to be an important element in the advancement of human culture. In this spirit, The Idries Shah Foundation has created ‘Cultural Crossroads’, a website forum where people from many walks of life are invited to [...]
Cultural Crossroads During his lifetime Idries Shah promoted contacts and connections between different traditions around the world, believing this to be an important element in the advancement of human culture. In this spirit, The Idries Shah Foundation has created ‘Cultural Crossroads’, a website forum where people from many walks of life are invited to [...]
Cultural Crossroads During his lifetime Idries Shah promoted contacts and connections between different traditions around the world, believing this to be an important element in the advancement of human culture. In this spirit, The Idries Shah Foundation has created ‘Cultural Crossroads’, a website forum where people from many walks of life are invited to [...]
Friends of ISF will be sorry to hear of Dr. Jay Einhorn's death on 16th January in Chicago. As a tribute, we are reposting a piece Dr. Einhorn wrote for ISF in 2017. Someone asked me about how I became interested in the Sufi writing of Idries Shah, back in the 1970s. Here’s what [...]
