A Sufi dervish waging the greater jihad
To understand jihad as an epithet of badness ignores an honourable and complex history in Muslim discourse. The word crusade, which deals with
10. Introductions
Ten is a great film. Ten car journeys, ten dialogues, ten emotional situations. The result is the most powerful sense of intimacy: a power deriving from the depth
Despite the critical feeding frenzy that tends to surround a new release from either of the best-known Iranian directors, Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the chance for other Iranian stories