Reza Aslan, Ph.D, is an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions, a frequent commentator on the Middle East for national television networks including CBS, NBC, and CNN. He is a contributing editor at the Daily Beast (thedailybeast.com) and regularly publishes commentaries on various new media. Aslan’s first book is the international bestseller, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, which has been translated into 13 languages, and named one of the 100 most important books of the last decade. He is also the author of How to Win a Cosmic War (published in paperback as Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in a Globalized Age), and editor of the new anthology Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East, assembled under the auspices of Words Without Borders, to be released by Norton concurrent with Words & Music, 2010. Born in Iran, he now lives in Los Angeles where he is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. For more on Reza, Click Here.