The Batha Museum of Fez hosts from 8:30 p.m. a vibrant posthumous tribute to Rabiaa Adawiyya, a leading figure in the world of Sufism. This tribute will take place this evening at the opening of the ninth edition of the Fez Festival of Sufi Culture. Scheduled from April 18 to 25, the event, which celebrates its ninth anniversary this year, just as charged with symbols and values, has chosen to give this opening evening the taste of a mystical journey through time. Thus, the public will be entitled to a pleasant musical creation in tribute to Rabiaa Adawiyya. Titled "Intimate Dialogues and Illuminations", this creation will bring together on stage three great names of Sufi music: Samira Kadiri, Fatim Azzahra Kortobi, Marwane Hajji, and Salah Eddi?n Mohssine. On the program for this opening evening, there will also be, from 4 p.m. at the Batha Museum, a general introduction by the president of the Fez Festival of Sufi Culture, Faouzi Skali, followed by a musical and artistic moment.

The next day, at the same place, another vibrant tribute will be paid to Abdelwahab Meddeb, the great Tunisian thinker, writer, and poet who died in 2014, known in Morocco for his chronicles on the radio Medi1. Some of these chronicles have just been published by Albin Michel editions in a posthumous book titled "Sufi Instants". It is precisely around this theme that a round table, doubled with poetic readings, will be dedicated to his work. This tribute brings together several speakers from various backgrounds and cultural sensitivities to evoke the journey and the multiple facets of the work of Abdelwahab Meddeb. This edition will essentially celebrate the cultural, spiritual, poetic, artistic, and philosophical heritage of Islam, an invaluable intangible heritage, through several debate meetings, conferences, music concerts, shows, Samaâ evenings, but also plastic arts exhibitions.