500 years before the West discovered trance music, a community in North Africa was using their own hypnotic beats and rhythms during spiritual ceremonies. Here’s what you need to know about Gnawa music.

Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/knHV0Opz6JI

#Compass #Gnawa #SufiMusic

Have you heard of the Gnawa music from North Africa? Asmaa Hamzaoui is its first ever female master in history. This is her story

Watch the latest episode of Compass in Morocco here: https://youtu.be/knHV0Opz6JI

#Compass #Timbouktou #AsmaaHamzaoui

Have you heard of the Gnawa music from North Africa? Asmaa Hamzaoui is its first ever female master in history. This is her story

Watch the latest episode of Compass in Morocco here: https://youtu.be/knHV0Opz6JI

#Compass #Timbouktou #AsmaaHamzaoui

500 years before the West discovered trance music, a community in North Africa was using their own hypnotic beats and rhythms during spiritual ceremonies. Here’s what you need to know about Gnawa music.

Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/knHV0Opz6JI

#Compass #Gnawa #SufiMusic

Compass is in Morocco to explore the fascinating world of Gnawa culture, music and ceremony by talking to the artists most connected to the story.

#Compass #Gnawa #Morocco

Compass travels to the south of Spain to explore the continent's Muslim roots. As divisions in Europe become ever more apparent, we ask what lessons are there to learn from the period of Islamic rule known as "La Convivencia"?

#Compass #Spain #LaConvivencia

Matan Pinkas is an Israeli artist who has taken a surrealist approach to the conflict. Born and bred in Jerusalem, he is a self-styled Iranian ambassador to Jerusalem.

#Jerusalem #IranianAmbassador

2018 marks 70 years since the creation of Israel and for Palestinians, the Nakba, or catastrophe. It has also seen the controversial move of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Compass heads to Jerusalem to explore it’s complex history of borders and divisions and examine what this disputed move means to the artists that live there.

#Compass #Jerusalem #Nakba

As the world experiences the worst refugee crisis in recorded history, Compass looks at the expression of displacement and loss through art and music. The media often focuses on Europe’s borders, but the majority of the 65 million people displaced globally live in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. We visit Kenya, home to some of the largest refugee camps in the world, to see how people are trying to pursue their artistic talents – even when they’ve lost everything.​​

In the wake of Brexit, we explore the idea of British identity and belonging through art. As debates rage over national identity, integration and immigration, is the narrative of what it means to be British excluding certain voices? We meet several artists working to ‘correct’ the story of British history through their art - and trying to encourage society to adopt a more accurate reflection of British history and identity.