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The Wrath of God: Reza Aslan on Faith, Islam and the Media
No full textApart from being an exceptionally intelligent writer, religious scholar Reza Aslan is quickly gaining a reputation for being one of the most patient men on television.More than once, he has painstakingly explained to TV hosts that their less-than-sophisticated stands on Islam may be founded on flimsy and dangerous assumptions. He gained international recognition for his Fox News interview that went viral, and more recently, Aslan’s nuanced response to Bill Maher’s rant.Aslan returned to Vancouver to unpack the arguments around religion and violence. Touching on a range of topics from identity to ISIS, Aslan argued that no religion exists in a vacuum. Every faith is rooted in the soil in which it is planted.“Using two or three examples to justify a generalization. That’s actually the definition of bigotry.” – Reza Aslan (response to Bill Maher)Reza Aslan, an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions, is author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. He is the founder of AslanMedia, a social media network for news and entertainment about the Middle East and the world, and co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of BoomGen Studios, the premier entertainment brand for creative content from and about the Greater Middle East. Aslan’s first book is the International Bestseller, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, which has been translated into seventeen languages, and named one of the 100 most important books of the last decade. He is also the author of How to Win a Cosmic War, as well as editor of two volumes: Tablet and Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East, and Muslims and Jews in America: Commonalities, Contentions, and Complexities. Born in Iran, he lives in Los Angeles with his wife (author and entrepreneur Jessica Jackley). When Aslan is not working on his own writing, he serves as a writing consultant in television on the upcoming show, DIG, with Tim Kring and Gideon Raff
Reza Aslan: Islam & ISIS
No full textTHE DEAN\u27S FELLOWS OF THE COLLEGE OF ARTS & LETTERS PRESENT
Reza Aslan: Islam & ISIS
Amidst the recent terror attacks in the Middle East, Paris and San Bernardino, CA, harmful generalizations regarding the Muslim population\u27s involvement in terrorism have spread rapidly. In this exciting event, Reza Asian will be speaking about and answering questions regarding the relationship between radical Islam and terrorism. The event will be conducted largely in question and answer format, and audience members are invited to submit anonymous questions via text.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4 8:00 PM JORDAN AUDITORIUM MENDOZA COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
Dr. Reza Asian, an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions, is the author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. His International Bestseller, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, was named one of the 100 most important books of the last decade. In addition, he also has been featured as a correspondent for Fox News, CNN, John Stewart\u27s The Daily Show and the New York Times. He currently serves as Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside and is filming his television show, Believer, that will premiere on CNN in 2016 .https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndls_posters/1192/thumbnail.jp
Reza Aslan - Author of No god but God and Expert on Islam
No full textIn partnership with the Quest for Community: A Call to Action Conference
The first young Muslim intellectual to come on the scene in years, Reza Aslan brings a new, passionate, and much-needed perspective to the national discussion regarding Islam. Aslan is a fellow at the University of Southern California\u27s Center on Public Diplomacy and Middle East analyst for CBS News. In his internationally acclaimed book No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, as in his lectures and writings, Aslan explores the intricate interplay between faith and politics in the Muslim world, presenting Islam as an ever-evolving faith and culture currently in the midst of a cataclysmic internal battle for reform and modernization.
Arrangements for the appearance of Reza Aslan made through Greater Talent network, Inc., NY, NY.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/archives_presidential_lecture_series/1044/thumbnail.jp
Pseudoholomorphic quilts and Khovanov homology:
No full textWe generalize the symplectically-defined link homology theory developed by Paul Seidel and Ivan Smith to an invariant of tangles. We obtain a group-valued invariant, a functor-valued (or symplectic-valued functor) invariant and an ay functor-valued one for tangles. We provide evidence for the equivalence of this invariant with Khovanov's combinatorially defined invariant by showing the equivalence for flat (crossingless) tangles and their cobordisms. We also obtain an exact triangle for the Seidel-Smith invariant similar to that of Khovanov.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-93)by Reza Rezazadega
Reza Aslan: Iranian-American Writer, Professor of Creative Writing
No full textReza Aslan, one of the nation\u27s most respected experts on Islam and the Middle East is a research associate at the University of Southern California\u27s Center on Public Diplomacy. He serves as a Middle East commentator for National Public Radio\u27s Marketplace and Muslim affairs analyst for CBS News.
The author of the internationally acclaimed No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, Aslan received critical acclaim from The New York Times, which described the work as a grippingly narrated and thoughtfully examined ... literate, accessible introduction to Islam.
Aslan has written for the Los Angeles Times, New York Times , Slate, Boston Globe, Washington Post and The Nation, and has appeared on Meet the Press, Hardball, The Daily Show, Real Time with Bill Maher and Nightline.
Aslan\u27s career began in 1998 when was elected president of Harvard\u27s chapter of the World Conference on Religion and Peace (WCRP), a United Nations organization committed to the cause of global understanding. After consecutive nuclear tests by India and Pakistan, the WCRP, under Aslan\u27s leadership, brought the ambassadors of the two countries to Harvard in order to discuss for the first time their shared nuclear future.
Aslan\u27s work with the WCRP led to a position as legislative assistant for the Friends Committee on National Legislation in Washington, D.C., where he served as a liaison to Congress on issues of arms control and the Middle East.
He holds a bachelor\u27s degree in religion from Santa Clara University, a master\u27s in theological studies from Harvard and a master of fine arts degree in fiction from the University of Iowa. He is currently a doctoral candidate in history of religions at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Phonological change of vowel length in Farsi
No full textPhonological change of vowel length in Farsi
Author / Authors : Reza Heidarizadi
Page no. 50 - 55
Discipline : Persian Linguistics/language
Script/language : Roman/English
Category : Research paper
Keywords: Farsi vowels, vowel length, Compensatory lengthenin
Interactions of L-3,5,3'-Triiodothyronine, Allopregnanolone, and Ivermectin with the GABAA Receptor: Evidence for Overlapping Intersubunit Binding Modes
No full textStructural mechanisms of modulation of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) type A receptors by neurosteroids and hormones remain unclear. The thyroid hormone L-3,5,3’-triiodothyronine (T3) inhibits GABA-A receptors at micromolar concentrations and has common features with neurosteroids such as allopregnanolone (ALLOP). Here we use functional experiments on α2β1γ2 GABA-A receptors expressed in Xenopus oocytes to detect competitive interactions between T3 and an agonist (ivermectin, IVM) with a crystallographically determined binding site at subunit interfaces in the transmembrane domain of a homologous receptor (glutamate-gated chloride channel, GluCl). T3 and ALLOP also show competitive effects, supporting the presence of both a T3 and ALLOP binding site at one or more subunit interfaces. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations over 200 ns are used to investigate the dynamics and energetics of T3 in the identified intersubunit sites. In these simulations, T3 molecules occupying all intersubunit sites (with the exception of the α-β interface) display numerous energetically favorable conformations with multiple hydrogen bonding partners, including previously implicated polar/acidic sidechains and a structurally conserved deformation in the M1 backbone.Peer reviewe
ASTROPOLITIK: SIGNIFIKANSI RUANG ANGKASA TERHADAP POSISI CHINA DALAM HUBUNGAN INTERNASIONAL
No full textToday’s world politics is in momentum of transition from unipolarity to multipolarity. As a reflection of the anarchical international system, the contemporary space environment is characterized by a multiplicity of spacefaring nations to competing for honor and influence. Where the traditional space pattern was limited to the political military confrontation of the United States and Soviet Union, recent decades have seen the rapid escalation of new nations active in space, including developing and smaller countries. China has become a recognized as the new space-faring nation. This article will explain about how China pursuing the former hegemonic nation to become one of space-faring nation
Analisis Optimalisasi Potensi Daerah untuk Meningkatkan Pendapatan Asli Daerah Kota Malang
No full textPendapatan Asli Daerah (PAD) seringkali dijadikan bahan komparasi antar kabupaten/kota di Indonesia. Tidak hanya besarannya saja, tetapi juga komposisinya terhadap jumlah pendapatan daerah selain dari dana perimbangan dan lain-lain pendapatan daerah yang sah menarik untuk dikaji. Umumnya, penerimaan PAD didominasi oleh pajak daerah. Sayangnya, jenis-jenis pajak daerah terlalu kaku sehingga menyulitkan bagi kabupaten/kota dalam berinovasi demi meningkatkan PAD. Untuk meningkatkan PAD lahkah pertama yang diperlukan adalah menganalisis potensi daerah masing-masing. Dengan mempergunakan dokumen-dokumen keluaran Pemerintah Kota Malang antara tahun 2012-2019 yang dianalisis secara kuantitatif, tulisan ini menemukan hasil bahwa perkembangan ekonomi telah merubah potensi daerah. Beberapa sektor pajak seperti BPHTB, PBB, dan PPJ tidak dapat lagi dijadikan sebagai sektor yang diandalkan apabila masih dikalkukasi dan dikelola dengan pemahaman lama. Terdapat faktor yang tidak dapat dikendalikan oleh pemerintah Kota Malang, seperti suku bunga bank, pertumbuhan ekonomi makro, nilai tukar rupiah terhada dolar, dan lain-lain yang juga berpengaruh pada realisasi pajak daerah. Perkembangan ekonomi Kota Malang telah menghasilkan primadona baru dalam pajak daerah, yaitu hotel dan restoran. Sayangnya Pemerintah Kota Malang masih terlalu berfokus pada BPHTB, PBB, dan PPJ sehingga belum mengoptimalkan potensi pajak hotel dan restoran
Author Correction: Smartphone‑based device for point‑of‑care diagnostics of pulmonary infammation using convolutional neural networks (CNNs)
No full textCorrection to: Scientific Reportshttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-54939-4, published online 22 March 2024 The original version of this Article contained an error in the author name S. Mohammad-Reza Taheri which was incorrectly given as Seyed Mohammad Reza Taheri. In addition, an affiliation was omitted for S. Mohammad-Reza Taheri. The correct affiliations for S. Mohammad-Reza Taheri are listed below. Groningen University, University Medical Center groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713AW Groningen, the Netherlands. Condensed Matter National Laboratory, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran. Moreover, Hossein Simaee was incorrectly affiliated with ‘Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran 1417614335, Iran’ and ‘Integrated Biophysics and Bioengineering Lab (iBL), Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran 1417614335, Iran’. The correct affiliation for Hossein Simaee is listed below. Cardiac Primary Prevention Research Center, Cardiovascular Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. The original Article has been corrected.</p
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