E-mail a friendJanuary 23, 2006
Religions scholar and Islam expert Reza Aslan discusses the nuclear crisis in Iran. Founder of Craigslist, Craig Newmark, reflects on his Internet success story.
Reza Aslan
Reza Aslan
Reza Aslan is a comparative religions scholar. Born in Iran, he studied at Harvard, where he was president of the World Conference on Religion and Peace, a U.N. organization committed to global understanding. Aslan is also a graduate of the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop and was Visiting Assistant Professor of Islamic and Middle East Studies at the University of Iowa. His work has appeared in several publications including USA Today and U.S. News & World Report. No god but God is his first book.
Craig Newmark
Craig Newmark
Founder of the popular online community, Craigslist, Craig Newmark was one of Time magazine's most influential people of '05. He turned a simple online calendar of events for his adopted city of San Francisco into a top-20 Internet firm. Through word of mouth, the non-commercial network has sites for over 115 cities in 25 countries. Newmark is a Web-oriented software engineer, who also started The List Foundation - a Bay Area virtual community that provides useful community resources - which he plans to expand to other cities.