Ed Hayes

Ed Hayes is an Editorial Intern at openDemocracy, who graduated in Arabic and Persian from Oxford and has directred a Britten opera.

<em>Jihad</em>: how a word became a weapon

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

By Ed Hayes

/ 13 Jul 2003

10 x Ten: Kiarostamis journey

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

By Ed Hayes

/ 4 Dec 2002

Between life and death: two Iranian films

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

By Ed Hayes and Flora Roberts

/ 31 Jan 2002

Ed Hayes

<em>Jihad</em>: how a word became a weapon

10 x Ten: Kiarostami&#146;s journey

Between life and death: two Iranian films

10 x Ten: Kiarostamis journey