Divine Mirror: The Iraqi Maqam

We meet the Iraqi-born musician, Nawres Al-Freh, who will reveal the hidden beauties of the maqam, a musical style that travelled the Silk Road out of the Middle East and into Central Asia centuries ago. Part of the classical music heritage of the Muslim world, with lyrics ranging from secular poetry and folk tales to Sufi mysticism, the maqam has gone into space on board the Voyager spacecraft