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Mohamed
Askari
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Mohamed Askari was born 1943 at Luxor, Egypt, where he grew up and
learned to play the nay - which is regarded by the sufi to be the
prolonged breath of God. He succeeded in studying clarinet and composition
in Germany at the universities of Heidelberg/Mannheim and Berlin,
followed by studies in music ethnology at the Free University of
Berlin and Göttingen. Mohamed Askari is engaged in the inter-cultural
and inter-religious dialogue within the last thirty years. In addition
to that he is the co-founder of the German- speaking journal of
Arab arts and culture "Al Maqam".
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