Musician Asim Al-Tayeb… Resisting wars with music

Sudan Events – Magda

Musician Asim Al-Tayeb Qurashi has been resisting wars in Sudan with music in areas of armed conflict for many years, playing music for the poor and in the streets, singing for peace and love.

The musician is among the speakers at the Sudan conference, and talks about (Stories from the Earth) Asim Al-Tayeb, a music doctor and philosopher who has worked in several artistic initiatives. He participates with a group of names in various fields, including Asala Salah, a feminist, writer, researcher and former volunteer in the Al-Naw Hospital initiative, Mohamed Al-Tayeb, a television journalist who returned to Khartoum after the start of the war to cover the conflict, Ibrahim Al-Safi, a journalist and former volunteer in a number of service initiatives, Wael Marhoum, an activist in the Al-Barari Emergency Room, co-founder of Al-Barari Educational Centers.
Abla Saleh, an activist and researcher, a member of the “Save Al-Geneina” initiative in the Adre refugee camp, Chad.
Yusra Saber, a feminist writer and journalist specializing in media development.
Asim Al-Tayeb is an artist with a creative talent and an endless ability to create mixed with the Sufi spirit, interested in traditional music in conflict areas.
Asim Al-Tayeb also works to spread and introduce popular music inside and outside Sudan by converting the music of popular instruments into notes Musically with the violin or through academic research.

He continued to carry the burden of the anti-war project through music, participated in many international festivals and competitions, and won several international awards, the most famous of which is the World Whistling Award for his mouth playing, the Best Music Award in Washington 2011.

He also sang Sufi songs, carrying the Nubian rhythm in his conscience, along with the state of tolerance that Sufis live in Sudan.