Mohamed El-Fers
Mohamed el-Fers is a Dutch writer, musician and filmmaker.
Life
El-Fers was musician in Los Compañeros, Nass el-Ghorba, Tiq Maya, Medina and Atlal. With this last group he had in 1982 a number 1 hit in Egypt and Sudan and appeared in El Alem Ghani the Egyptian television show by Hamdia Hamdi.He published in Hitweek / Aloha, De Groene Amsterdammer, Nieuwe Revu, Algemeen Dagblad, the Turkish newspaper Dünya and De Staatskrant.
Together with René Zwaap, he founded MokumTV, one of the best viewed programmes of Salto TV, a local television station in Amsterdam. For MokumTV he made several documentaries, later released on DVD.
El-Fers produced in 1996 for Hippo Records two CDs with Leo Fuld, the 'king of Yiddish music'.
He wrote biographies on e.g. Jacques Brel, Mevlana Rumi, Oum Kalsoum and Bob Marley and published travel guides about Istanbul, Lourdes and Amsterdam. He also wrote an "Encyclopedie van Hollandse Heiligen", 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.
Some of his books in Dutch
Bob Marley Jacques Brel Mehmed VI : de laatste sultan Columbus Oum Kalsoum Mevlânâ Istanbul Jacques Brel /Some of his books in English
Lourdes beyond clichés: The Complete Guide to Lourdes Kirkpinar, all about Turkish Oilwrestling- ''Mevlana Rumi''