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• Friedlander, Shems: The Whirling Dervishes: Being An Account of the Sufi Order known as the Mevlevis and its.

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Shems Friedlander, chairman of the Sony Gallery’s International Advisory Board, has pursued a distinguished career as a designer, educator, academic, poet, filmmaker, and photographer, through all of which activities and interests runs the thread of a profound and abiding interest in the arts of the Middle East and in Sufism.

Over his many years as a designer in New York, Friedlander has worked on magazines, record album covers, and books, winning 30 New York Art Directors Club awards, including a coveted Silver Award for Anatomy of a Cloud, on the work of the artist Paul Jenkins.

His own writings include a collection of poetry, Sunlight, Poems and Other Words (Safina Books, Cairo, 1997), with Nuri Friedlander, an account of the mystic poet Jalaluddin Rumi, The Whirling Dervishes (Macmillan, New York, 1975), and, most recently, Rumi, T