Fez musicfest honors Khayyam

June 9th, 2012

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The festival kicked off on Friday and runs until June 16. The festival’s theme is “Re-enchanting the World” and it pays special tribute to Omar Khayyam, who was born in the eastern Iranian city of Neyshabur in 1048 and died in his hometown in 1131.

Khayyam will be specifically honored in a film directed by Tony Gatlif, whose musicals and films capturing the essence and emotion of Tsigan, Eastern, and Sufi music have brought him international fame.

Khayyam was also an Islamic scholar and mathematician. He compiled astronomical tables, contributed to calendar reform, and discovered a geometrical method of solving cubic equations by intersecting a parabola with a circle.

Khayyam’s influence was not limited to Iran’s borders, and his work has had an impact on many societies and their literature.

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