Juan Cole

Karen Armstrong on Bill Moyers. Moyers says, “BILL MOYERS: While working on a film in Jerusalem, the ancient city where Islam, Judaism and Christianity converge, the connections among that trio of faiths rekindled Armstrong’s imagination and led to another new career. She became one of the foremost, and most original, thinkers on religion in our […]

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The rapidly changing political scene in the Middle East is presenting kaleidoscopic challenges to President Barack Obama as a policy-maker. It is of some moment who wins the June, 2009, presidential election in Iran. Former President Mohammad Khatami has just pulled out of the race, fearful that the three liberals in the race would split […]

Remember to check in with Stephen Colbert’s “Colbert Report tonight, Wednesday, at 11:30 ET, 10:30 Central for his interview of me regarding “Engaging the Muslim World.” More reactions to Engaging the Muslim World Novelist and journalist Anis Shivani reviews the book for Huffington Post: ‘Engaging the Muslim World exposes the fallacies of recent myths constituting […]

The Asia Society in New York City will be hosting a live Webcast at 7 pm on today, March 17, of my talk on “Engaging the Muslim World.” See you there! End/ (Not Continued)

Amy Goodman interviewed me Tuesday morning for Democracy Now! It was a wide-ranging conversation with a lot of good, sharp questions. Democracy Now! on Engaging the Muslim World. The Mp4 video stream the show is here (I show up about 20 minutes in.) Engaging the Muslim World End/ (Not Continued)

Dick Cheney: “I guess my general sense of where we are with respect to Iraq and at the end of now, what, nearly six years, is that we’ve accomplished nearly everything we set out to do….” What has Dick Cheney really accomplished in Iraq? An estimated 4 million Iraqis, out of 27 million, have been […]

More news about my new book, Engaging the Muslim World, which is in bookstores starting today. (Barnes and Noble in particular has it on the front table as you enter the store). Novelist and historian Ron Jacobs reviews Engaging the Muslim World positively. Salon.com is running an excerpt from my book, on Hizbullah, Iran and […]

The immediate crisis in Pakistan was averted Monday morning when Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani announced that he was going to reinstate Iftikhar Chaudhry as chief justice of the supreme court. Chaudhry had been dismissed by dictator Gen. Pervez Musharraf in 2007 in a particularly lawless way. Pakistan Muslim League (N) leader Nawaz Sharif had […]