Reza Aslan — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer at BoomGen Studios
Professor of creative writing at University of California, Riverside
Author of 'No God but God,' 'Beyond Fundamentalism,' 'Zealot,' 'God: A Human History,' and 'An American Martyr in Persia'
Television host for CNN's 'Believer' and executive producer for HBO's 'The Leftovers'
Holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, an MTS from Harvard Divinity School, and a B.A. from Santa Clara University
Serves on the board of directors of the Ploughshares Fund and PEN Center USA, and on the national advisory board of The Markaz

Biography

Reza Aslan is an Iranian-American scholar of sociology, writer, and television host. He currently serves as the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer at BoomGen Studios and is a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside. Aslan's family immigrated to the United States from Tehran in 1979, fleeing the Iranian Revolution, and he grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Academically, Aslan holds a B.A.