DR. REZA ASLAN

DR. REZA ASLAN is an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions. Aslan holds a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a master of Fine Arts in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His first book, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam, was an international bestseller and has been translated into thirteen languages, including Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew and Indonesian (Persian and Urdu translations forthcoming).

He is also the author of How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization and the End of the War on Terror (published in paperback as Beyond Fundamentalism), as well as Editor of an anthology of modern literature from the Middle East entitled Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East. Aslan is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside.

More info: www.rezaaslan.com