NPR’s recent hour-long special The Partisans of Ali is an concise and engaging historical overview of the long sectarian divide between Sunni and Shia Muslims. Well worth a listen if you want to understand the deeper long term conflicts that we’ve gotten uncomfortably close to these past few years.
The Partisans of Ali
Mar 12th, 2007 by Jon Stahl
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