Career
El-Fers was musician in Los Compañeros (Latin American), Nass el-Ghorba (Moroccan), Tiq Maya (Moroccan), Medina (popular) and 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 television show 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, he founded MokumTV, one of the best viewed programmes of Salto television, a local television station in Amsterdam.
Foreign MokumTV he made several documentairies, later released on Digital Video Disc. 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 Encyclopedia on Dutch Saints.
Together with Veyis Güngör, El-Fers took the initiative that would become the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Mevlana Year in 2007.
See Mevlana800.
