The interests of outsiders, not those of the battered, bloodied and belittled peoples of Iraq and Syria, drive this brutal political theatre.
Far from being another instance of Hollywood whitewashing, the planned biopic on the life of Rumi could prove more unifying than divisive.
Politics begins with the way we use words, George Orwell reminded us. At a precarious moment for relations between Muslims and their others it is important to recall that Allah
