The Morgenland Festival Osnabrück 2007 presented the first guest appearance of a western orchestra in Tehran/Iran. The concert by the Tehran Symphony Orchestra in Osnabrück from the previous year had led to numerous contacts between musicians from Tehran and Osnabrück, so that the desire for this concert came from both sides.
Apart from this, the first exchange between the Barenboim Said Music School in Nazareth and the Art and Music School in Osnabrück took place. A cooperation with the Lahore World Music Festival in Lahore brought the Sufi drummers Goonga and Mithu Sain to Osnabrück. They firstly played together and then a set with the Osnabrück percussionist Joachim Dölker.
The young Iranian artist Golnar Tabibzadeh put on an art exhibition with the title “Visual Diary”, which was musically accompanied by the Cymin Samawatie Trio who played a work specially composed for the exhibition and also entitled “Musical Diary”.
The Cairo Ballet Company, the only classical ballet company in the Arabic world, presented a furioso finale.

The Morgenland Festival Osnabrück 207 was made possible by:
                 
Federal­ Cultural Foundation
Foundation Niedersachsen
NDR music sponsoring in Lower Saxony
Niedersächsische Sparkasse Foundation
Sparkasse Osnabrück German Foreign Ministry
Egyptian Embassy
State of Lower Saxony
Osnabrück – Marketing and Tourism GmbH Landschaftsverband Osnabrücker Land e.V.
Landkreis Osnabrück
Sievert Building Materials Group
ARSEH Hinrichs Foto Factory

Patron: Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Cooperation partners: Theatre Osnabrück; Cairo Opera House; Ershad Ministry Tehran; Lahore World Music Festival; Barenboim Said Music School Nazareth; Art History Museum Osnabrück; Institute for Music of the University for Applied Science Osnabrück; Art and Music School Osnabrück; Hinrichs Foto Factory; Exhibition Design Krüger Kommunication; FOKUS e.V.; Artists Atelier Bildraum; Association for Youth Welfare e.V.; GEDOK e.V. ­