Reza Aslan - Writings

Five Reasons Why the US Should Not Veto A Palestinian State: Published September 15, 2011 in The LA Times.
The Fire This Time: On the meaning of 9/11 Ten Years Later: By Reza Aslan; September 9, 2011
The Coming Showdown in Israel: By Reza Aslan; August 19, 2011
Obama's "Weak", "Politically Correct" Counterterrorism Plan Will Make Americans Safer: By Reza Aslan; August 12, 2011
Reza Aslan writes for Foreign Policy on how the media both overestimated and underestimated the Green Movement. Part of a the Misreading Tehran series on FP.: By Reza Aslan; July/August, 2010
World Wanderer: By Reza Aslan; July 21, 2011
Like It or Not, the US and Pakistan Need Each Other: By Reza Aslan; July 11, 2011
Cairo's Protests Reverberate in Tehran: By Reza Aslan; March 11, 2011
Backward Glances: Islamic Erotica, Then and Now: By Reza Aslan; February 17, 2011
On Muslims, King has Reached his own Fact-less Conclusion: By Reza Aslan; February 9, 2011
Do Egyptians Want Both Democracy and a Role for Religion in Their Government?: By Reza Aslan; January 30, 2011
Do We Have Ahmadinejad All Wrong?: By Reza Aslan; January 13, 2011
What will Iran look like in a decade?: By Parsi, Aslan, Jones; February 19, 2010
The End of the Beginning: What will be the legacy of the Green Revolution?: By Trita Parsi, Reza Aslan; June 26, 2009
Viewpoint: Reza Aslan: The Spirit of '79: By Reza Aslan; Friday, Jun. 19, 2009
Viewpoint: Reza Aslan: Losing the 'war on terror': May 5, 2009
Losing the War on Terror: Published April 8, 2009 in The LA Times.
By dropping the controversial phrase, the U.S. may be redefining the contest with radical Islam.
An Israeli Strike on Iran, a Plan That Just Doesn't Fly: Published August 10, 2008 in The Washington Post.
Reza Aslan: A different election: By Reza Aslan; March 15, 2008
Holy Orders: Published December 18, 2007 by Foreign Policy Magazine.
Why Do They Hate Us?: Published August 6, 2007 on Slate Magazine.
Strange answers lie in al-Qaida's writings.
State Belief: Published July 26, 2007 in Time Magazine.
"There is that word: Islamist. It is a word that, lately, gets tossed around almost as frequently as terrorist and is equally inflammatory and imprecise."
American Islam: Published January, 2007 on Slate Magazine.
Will Islamic radicalism gain a foothold in America? A Conversation With Daniel Benjamin about Muslims in America.
Truth and Power: Published December 24, 2006 in The Boston Globe.
For many Muslims today, 'interreligious dialogue' often looks suspiciously like religious coercion.
Keep It Whole: Published November 28, 2006 in The New Republic.
The US must not allow Iraq to fracture into Sunni, Shia and Kurdish statelets.
The Battle of the Fatwas: Published November 2005 in The Los Angeles Times.
The War for Islam: Published September 10, 2006 in The Boston Globe.
Osama bin Laden may go down in history not only as the murderous criminal who declared holy war on the United States, but also as a radical figure in what has come to be called the Islamic Reformation -- the epic struggle to define the faith of over a billion people
A Giant Awakes: Published June 3, 2006 in The Gaurdian.
The major powers yesterday ruled out military action against Iran, but in truth it has never been an option against the Middle East's most influential force.
Depicting Mohammed: Posted Wednesday, February 8, 2006 on Slate Magazine.
Why I'm Offended by the Danish Cartoons of the Prophet
A Coming Islamic Reformation: Published January 28, 2006 in The Los Angeles Times
A Cult is Trying to Hijack Our Iran Policy: Published December 10, 2004 in The Los Angeles Times
Islam's Democratic Past: Published December 2005 in The Los Angeles Times
Iraq's Miracle Constitution: Published October 2005 in The Los Angeles Times
For Iranians, It Was the Economy, Stupid: Published July 2005 in The Los Angeles Times
Syria's Baathists Fear Evolution and Extinction: Published June 17, 2005 in The Los Angeles Times
A Democracy of Believers: Published June, 2005 in Prospect Magazine.
Iraq should look to Israel for a model that combines democracy and religious belief.
Aunt Kobra's Islamic Democracy: Published April 17, 2005 in the Boston Globe.
In Iran, as throughout in the Muslim world, the personal is political, and religion is always both.
Diary of a Writer in Tehran: Posted September, 2004 on Slate Magazine. A weeklong electronic journal kept by Reza Aslan.
End of Days: Posted August 13, 2004 on Slate Magazine.
The Mission of Al-Sadr's Army of the Mahdi.
In the Footsteps of Martyrs: Posted February, 2004 on Slate Magazine.
A religious procession expresses more than historical frustrations.
Resurrecting an Ancient Library: Published September, 2002 in Poets and Writers.
The rebirth of the Biblioteca Alexandria.