Shia: A Tale of Two Cities
Iraq | 2004
Explores the competition between the Shiite clerical centres in Iran and Iraq. Najaf, Iraq, is broadly the Shiite equivalent of Jerusalem and the Vatican rolled into one, but under Sadam Hussein the city's persecuted clerics escaped to Qom, in Iran. After Saddam's fall, and with the imminent opening of the Iran-Iraq border, Najaf has undergone a renaissance and clerics in Iran will be free to ret…