For fans of scholar, author, media guy, and lightning rod Reza Aslan, last night — Tuesday, November 1 — should have been a celebration. He’s been on a national tour supporting his new book An ...

As I write this, officials in Sutherland Springs, Texas, are in the early stages of investigating Devin Kelley, who shot nearly four dozen people in a Baptist church congregation during Sunday ...

As he confesses in the introduction to “God: A Human History,” Reza Aslan has been a seeker nearly all of his life, looking for ways to connect with the divine. Though he grew up in a not terribly ...

Reza Aslan is many things - an academic scholar of religions; a professor of creative writing; a TV producer; a television personality - but above all else he is a storyteller. 'Religion is ...

Lunching on chelo kabab at Sholeh in the section of Westwood commonly called Tehrangeles, Reza Aslan doesn’t look like the kind of guy who gets death threats. But such threats are exactly why our ...

The story of Iran’s first democratic revolution and a young American who fought in it would have been poignant even if it had not come out as Iranians are in the throes of yet another attempt to ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Reza Aslan is many things - an academic scholar of religions; a professor of creative writing; a TV ...