Reza Aslan

M.F.A, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing
Office: 4131 INTS
Phone: (951) 827-2005
E-mail: reza.aslan@ucr.edu

Professor Aslan joins UCR from the Center of Public Diplomacy at University of Southern California. He has Degrees in Religions from Harvard University, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, as well as a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Iowa, where he was named the Truman Capote Fellow in Fiction. He is currently working on his Ph.D. at University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of the New York Times Bestseller, No god but God: The origins, Evolution, and the future of Islam which has been translated into thirteen languages, short-listed for the Guardian (UK) First Book Award, and nominated for a PEN USA award for research Non-Fiction. His next book, How to Win a Cosmic War will be published by Random House in 2009, followed by an edited anthology, Words Without Borders: Contemporary Literature from the Muslim World, published by Norton.