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Global Premiere

"Rumi Returning Premieres" in International Entertainment News
September 11, 2007

"More than One Thousand Attend World Premiere
of "Rumi Returning"

Nuevo Leon,
Monterrey, Mexico
September 24, 2007

European Premiere
"Rumi Alive Festival"
Rena Milgrom
Festival Director
October, 2007

Canadian Premiere
Middle Eastern Studies Assoc
(MESA) 2007 Conference
November 17 - 20, 2007

U.S. Premiere
"Filmmakers Gamble Everything for Love with
'Rumi Returning'"

Pagosa Springs Daily News
October 31, 2007

North African Premiere
"Fes:  le Soufisme en Fête"   
(article in French)
Nayla Abdul-Khalek
Afrique-Asie.fr
photos by Ammar Abdrabbo

June, 2008

Press Room
 

IN PRINT & ONLINE

Voice of America

Downloadable Media Kit
pdf 8.2 MB

A Partial List orf Screenings:
     Universal Forum of Cultures, Monterrey, Mexico
     RUMI ALIVE Festival, National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic
     Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Conference, Montreal, Canada
     Santa Fe Film Festival, New Mexico
     National Cathedral, Washington, D. C.
     Tel Aviv Spirit Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel
     University of Arizona, Tucson
     George Washington University, Washington, D. C.
     Fes Festival of Sufi Culture, Fes, Morocco
     The Guild Theatre, Albuquerque, New Mexico
     Sun Valley Spiritual Film Festival, Sun Valley, Idaho
     American Islamic Fellowship, Atlanta, Georgia

Click here to see what Andrew Harvey says about Rumi at the National Cathedral, Washington, DC premiere of "Rumi Returning."

"New Documentary Celebrates Rumi"
L.A. Spirit, Sept. 11, 2007

"Gamble Everything for Love!"
Earth Times, London, U.K., reprinted in Sufi News and Sufism World Report,
Nov. 2, 2007

"Into the Mystic"
Kelly Perkins, Prague Daily Monitor, Nov. 16, 2007

"'Rumi Returning' Wows Santa Fe, New Mexico"
Reuters, Dec. 13, 2007

"Rumi Returning" Review [pdf 852 KB]
Light of Consciousness: Journal of Spiritual Awakening, Autumn, 2008

"Film Fest Documents Journeys"
Sabina Dana Plasse with Tony Evans, Idaho Mountain Express, Wednesday,
Sept. 24, 2008

"Films spirituels 2008" ("Spiritual Films 2008")
(Article was written in French, but can be translated into English by Googling the website, www.meditationfrance.com/films.htm, then clicking on Translate this page.)

"Can't get enough Rumi?" (See lower right hand column, "Spreading the Word.")
Kripalu Online, June 2009

"Locals gather to Rumi-nate on the power of the poet in tough times" 
Erin Dubois, Souderton Independent (Pennsylvania), Nov. 1, 2009

"'Rumi Returning' to be shown Friday" [PDF]
Tony Di Domizio, Souderton Independent (Pennsylvania), Oct. 21, 2009

"Americans produce Rumi documentary"
Hurriyet Daily News, Anatolia News Agency, Konya, Turkey, Oct. 2, 2009

ON RADIO

Voice of America Radio Interview

Sufi Radio

KSFR Public Radio Interview, Santa Fe, New Mexico

WNPV 1440 am Radio Interview, Lansdale, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia area)
(Directions to Interview:  Follow link; Click on Comment Please by UNIVEST;
Find October, 2009; Click on "aired on October 23, 2009.)

 
 
 
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"Every Muslim should see 'Rumi Returning' - it's a reminder of the tolerance, love and inter-faith spirit which resides in Islam."
          Dilara Hafiz
          author of The American Muslim Teenager's Handbook

 
 
 

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