Juan Cole

With regard to my argument in Engaging the Muslim World that the Iraq War was fomented by an unusual alliance of oil interests (Dick Cheney) and Neoconservative Zionists, M. J. Rosenberg gets it. I’ll be interested to know if Philip Weiss still disagrees once he has had a chance to see the full argument with […]

So I was on the Colbert Report, hosted by Stephen Colbert at Comedy Central, on Wednesday night, to promote my new book, Engaging the Muslim World. The clip is up at the Colbert site now Colbert has four Emmys for his comedy writing on the show, and also just won a Producers Guild Award for […]

Charlie Rose is kindly taping an interview with me on Thursday, March 19. I do not know if it will air that day, or later. Will advise, but watch local listings. My earlier appearance with Charlie Rose, in 2005, can be found here. Oh, and thanks to Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times, a […]

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 […]

Catch my interview with Jeff Schechtman today here.End/ (Not Continued)

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)