Reza Aslan

Reza Aslan, a contributor to the Daily Beast, is assistant professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside and senior fellow at the Orfalea Center on Global and International Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of the bestseller No god but God and How to Win a Cosmic War.

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Author of No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam

Amreeka is a brilliant coming-of-age story from a young Arab-American director, Cherien Dabis. The movie, which chronicles the adventures of a mother and son who emigrate from the West Bank to a small town in Illinois, opens this weekend in L.A. (the Arclight and Landmark theaters) and New York (Lincoln Plaza and Landmark Sunshine).

7:29 pm, Sep 4, 2009

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Mhussein

I will definitely check it out in NY....I loved Persepolis...Thks.

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2:44 pm, Sep 5, 2009

sophia5

Now that the media's lovefest with Michael Jackson
is in a cooling period, until the murder charges, and
court case,
WHERE ARE YOU AMERICAN MEDIA ON THE
IRANIAN PROTESTERS ?

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