Mohamed El-Fers
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Mohamed el-Fers (Haarlem, 1950) is a Dutch writer, musician and filmmaker.
[edit] Life
El-Fers was musician in Los Compañeros (Latin American), Nass el-Ghorba (Moroccan), Tiq Maya (Moroccan), Medina (pop), Atlal (folkrock). With this last group he had in 1982 a number 1 hit in Egypt and Sudan and appeared in El Alem Ghani the Egyptian televisionshow by Hamdia Hamdi.
He publiced in Hitweek / Aloha, De Groene Amsterdammer, Nieuwe Revu, Algemeen Dagblad, the Turkish newspaper Dünya and De Staatskrant. Together with René Zwaap is he founder of MokumTV, one of the best viewed programmes of Salto TV. For MokumTV he made several remarkable documentairies, later released on DVD.
El-Fers produced in 1996 for Hippo Records two CDs with Leo Fuld, the 'king of Jiddish music'. He wrote biographies on e.g. Jacques Brel, Mevlana Rumi, Oum Kalsoum and Bob Marley and published travelguides about Istanbul, Lourdes and Amsterdam. Also he wrote an Encyclopedia on Dutch Saints.
Together with Veyis Güngör El-Fers took the initiative that would become the UNESCO Mevlana Year in 2007. See Mevlana800.
[edit] Some of his books in Dutch
- Bob Marley (1991) ISBN 90-5330-015-5
- Jacques Brel (1991) ISBN 90-5330-017-1
- Mehmed VI : de laatste sultan (1991) ISBN 90-5330-023-6
- Columbus (1991) ISBN 90-5330-032-5
- Oum Kalsoum (1991) ISBN 90-5330-037-6
- Mevlânâ (1992) ISBN 90-5330-049-X
- Istanbul (1993) ISBN 90-5330-054-6 (2007) ISBN 978-90-77814-05-5
- Jacques Brel (1994, 1996 en 1998) ISBN 90-5330-245-X / ISBN 90-5312-113-7
[edit] Some of his books in English
- Lourdes beyond clichés The Complete Guide to Lourdes (2007)
- Kirkpinar, all about Turkish Oilwrestling(2007)
- Mevlana Rumi (2006)
