Friday 9 April 2010
We saw another example of the Whirling Dervishes tonight. Although it was still a performance, this one took place in a Sufi religious community center and had a much more somber atmosphere than the last one we saw. It began and ended with a prayer, and no one was playing to the crowd here.
If you look at the audience members in the background there, you'll notice that they're all men. We women had to sit on the second floor and peer down. I'm noticing that whenever women have separate quarters of any kind in these Muslim countries, we seem to get the short end of the stick.
We saw another example of the Whirling Dervishes tonight. Although it was still a performance, this one took place in a Sufi religious community center and had a much more somber atmosphere than the last one we saw. It began and ended with a prayer, and no one was playing to the crowd here.
If you look at the audience members in the background there, you'll notice that they're all men. We women had to sit on the second floor and peer down. I'm noticing that whenever women have separate quarters of any kind in these Muslim countries, we seem to get the short end of the stick.
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