On Wednesday November 24, 2006, as part of the Islam Awareness Week, Shakespeare’s Globe Theater hosted a lecture by the venerable Dr Martin Lings on Shakespeare’s empathy with Sufi philosophy as revealed in Othello and other plays. Dr Martin Lings (Abu Bakr Siraj al-Din) is known as a Universalist and has his own following of highly intellectual and educated Muslims. The hall, as to be expected, was full. Present was Fouad Nahdi of Q-News, who played a great part in organizing the event, ‘Abd Al-Adheem Sanders, whose photographs are part of an exhibition at the Globe and Sheikh Hamza Yusuf.