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Reza Aslan (Persian: رضا اصلان , born 1972 in Tehran, Iran) [1]HYPERLINK   \l "cite_note-Reza_Aslan_-_Bio-1"[2], is an Iranian-American writer.[2]HYPERLINK   \l "cite_note-2"[3]
Dr. Reza Aslan is an internationally acclaimed writer, a scholar of religions, Professor at the University of California, Riverside, and a contributing editor for The Daily Beast.
His books include No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam (published 2005) and How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization and the End of the War on Terror (published 2009).

Aslan has been both Visiting Assistant Professor of Islamic and Middle East Studies at the University of Iowa and the Truman Capote Fellow in Fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Aslan has written for numerous newspapers and periodicals including Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Slate, Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the Guardian, Chicago Tribune, the Nation, and others.
He has also appeared on several TV programs, including The Rachel Maddow Show, Meet the Press, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Anderson Cooper 360°, Hardball, Nightline, Real Time with Bill Maher and Fareed Zakaria GPS.
He has served as a legislative assistant for the Friends' Committee on National Legislation in Washington D.C., and was elected president of Harvard's Chapter of the World Conference on Religion and Peace, a United Nations Organization committed to solving religious conflicts throughout the world. He is a member of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities and serves on advisory boards of both the Council of Foreign Relations and the Ploughshares Fund, which distributes grants to further peace and diplomacy throughout the world.
Aslan also taught courses during the early 1990's at De La Salle high school in Concord California, better known for its National High School football record 151 game winning streak.
He moved to the United States in 1979, during the Iranian RevolutionHYPERLINK   \l...

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