Dr. Faouzi Skali, an anthropologist and an ethnologist; he is a professor from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Fes; an author of many publications including "La Voie Soufi" (The Soufi Path), "Traces de Lumiere" (Traces of Light) and "Le Face à Face des Cœurs: Le soufisme aujourd'hui" (A Dialogue of hearts: Sufism Today), he is the Director of the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music.

Ph.D. in anthropology, ethnology and science of religions, Faouzi Skali was born in 1953 in Fez, Morocco. A French writer, he lies between the East and the West and works for the dialogue of peoples and cultures. At 23, reading a book by Jalal ud Din Rumi, translated into French by Eva-Vitray Meyerovitch, directed him to Sufism, the mystical dimension of Islam.

A year later, he met Sidi Hamza al Qadiri al Boutchichi of whom he became a disciple. He wrote his doctoral thesis at Paris-Sorbonne on the holy shrines and Fez. He is now a member of the Advisory Group appointed by the President of the European Commission and contributed to the debate on "Dialogue between Peoples and Cultures in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership".

He is also the founder / director of the International Conference A Soul for Globalization - since 2001 - in parallel with the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music, founded in 1994 and which he is also behind. Dr. Skali has taken the Festival a step further by coordinating a colloquium to follow the festival called Giving Soul to Globalization, a meeting place for humanitarians and international leaders in the business world to work together to develop more space for spirituality in the working world and is becoming a sort of counterpoint to the global economic and social forums. In 2007, he founded at the Fez Festival of Sufi Culture which is held each year.

Works:

• La Voie soufie, Albin Michel, Spiritualités Vivantes, 1985, 1993, 2000. (The Sufi Way, Albin Michel, Modern Spirituality, 1985, 1993, 2000. Work translated into Spanish and Italian.)
• Traces de lumière, paroles initiatiques soufies , Albin Michel , Spiritualités Vivantes, 1996, 2004. (Traces of light, lyrics initiation Sufi, Albin Michel , Modern Spirituality, 1996, 2004.)
• Futuwah, traité de chevalerie soufie , d'après al-Sulami, Albin Michel, Spiritualités Vivantes, 1989, 2000. (Futuwah, treated Sufi chivalry, according to al-Sulami, Albin Michel, Modern Spirituality, 1989, 2000. Work translated into Spanish and Italian.)
• Le Face à face des cœurs, le soufisme aujourd'hui , Editions du Relié, 2000, Presses Pocket, 2002. (Hearts face to face, Sufism today, Publishing Hardcover, 2000, Presses Pocket, 2002.)
• Jésus dans la tradition soufie , ouvrage co-écrit avec Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch , Albin Michel, 2004. (Jesus in the Sufi tradition, book co-written with Eva Vitray-Meyerovitch , Albin Michel, 2004. Work translated into Spanish, Catalan and Italian.)
• Saints et sanctuaires de Fès , éd. (Saints and Shrines of Fez, ed. Marsam, 2007.)
• Guérir l'esprit, le colloque de Bodhgaya , ouvrage co-écrit avec Jean-Yves Leloup et Lama Denys Teundroup , Albin Michel, Espaces Libres, 2001, 2004 (Healing the mind, the symposium Bodhgaya, book co-written with Jean-Yves Leloup and Lama Denys Teundroup , Albin Michel, Open Spaces, 2001, 2004)
• Un et nu , collectif, Albin Michel , 1981. (A bare, collective, Albin Michel , 1981.) With André Chouraqui, Camille Jordens, Jean-Yves Leloup, Jean Mouttapa, Pierre Solié, Annick de Souzenelle