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Egypt's ancient zar ritual
At Cairo's Makan Cultural Centre, the Mazaher ensemble performs a lighter version of "zar", an music and dance ritual with centuries-old roots, that aims to ward off or exorcise jinn, or evil spirits.
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Basel Naouri is an architect, sound artist and spatial media scenographer based in Berlin, with an MA degree in Media Spaces. He has engaged in a number of theoretical and practical projects in the fields of spatial sound, media architecture and immersive spaces, and is currently pursuing further research in the cross-section between spatial sound and AR/VR architectural experiences. His work is artistic-scientific, and focused on the phenomenological and philosophical relationship between sound, space and aesthetics. Basel collaborates with architecture and design firms, museums, musicians, visual artists, and movie-makers, to create innovative and thought provoking projects, displaying his work in international design events and performances around the world.