Filmmaker and designer Muzaffar Ali's long-awaited USD 25-million film on the 13th century Sufi saint and poet Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi is finally poised for take off, thanks to funding from the Qatar Foundation run by the wife of the Emir of the Gulf state.
Qatar to fund Muzaffar Ali's Rumi biopic
Cannes, May 23, 2008
Filmmaker and designer Muzaffar Ali's long-awaited USD 25-million film on the 13th century Sufi saint and poet Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi is finally poised for take off, thanks to funding from the Qatar Foundation run by the wife of the Emir of the Gulf state.
http://www.zibb.com/article/3311632/Qatar+to+fund+Muzaffar+Alis+Rumi+biopic
Anyone follow up on the progress of the Doha Interfaith Dialogue? Link for the 5th annual. The 6th annual was about three weeks ago.
http://sufinews.blogspot.com/2007/05/international-religious-dialogue-su...