Grantee tags Salaam

BloomingSongs Video Project

BloomingSongs

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

With help from the Puffin Foundation, artist- Haran Kim, and the Monroe County Public Library, BloomingSongs produced a music video of Dena El Saffar’s, “Ya Sadiqi.” Performed by Dena’s band, Salaam, “Ya Sadiqi” brings together Arabic phrases of friendship. Read More

Shalom/Salaam: A Story of a Mystical Fraternity (2004)

Tom Block

Year Grant Awarded: 2005

The Shalom/Salaam Project highlights the strong Sufi influence on the development of Jewish mysticism, following this unfamiliar tale from 10th century in Spain, Egypt and the Holy Land, through the Kabbalah and into contemporary Jewish practice. Read More