Paula Hardy

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Paula Hardy |Johnny Prince |Anna Selby |Claudia Winkleman

After a difficult few decades, visitors are returning to the North African nation in their droves - and it's easier than ever to join themI had started my week in Fes, at the World Sacred Music Festival, where I was seated in a royal ceremonial space, Bab Makina, watching whirling dervishes, chanting sufi sects, the angelic-voiced French mezzo-soprano, Battista Acquaviva, and the sama of Meknes whose rapturous polyphonic songs preserve some of the most beautiful Arabic poetry of Al-Andalus.