Concert of the Shulùq Ensemble (Calogero Giallanza, flute – Salim Dada, guitar, vocals – Andrea Piccioni, percussions) with music inspired by the poems of Ibn Hamdis, a melancholic Arabic poet of Sicily of the 11th century. After having fled from Sicily after the Norman conquest, all his life he sang in his verses about Sicily as a Lost Paradise, with the confused and vague awareness that in the transfer from the Greek world to the Arabic one, Sicily had summarized its most authentic spirituality. These are the roots of the project “The Dream of Hamdis”, a search that will follow and find, in the unfolding of the past millennium, the thread of a specific artistic conversation, from Sicily and from the Mediterranean, a “bridge” made of harmonies, sounds and sensitivity areas, a “mare nostrum” that although many times wet with blood, still manage to talk peace. Today, we often discuss about the Arab culture and civilization in an incorrect and distorted manner, often forgetting the innovations and the cultural influences that this has produced over time: this “Project” tries to disprove the misunderstanding and to affirm everything good and positive that could be drawn from a mutual exchange between East and West.