all kinds, but especially jazz, blues, rhythm & blues, Latin, classical Western, Arabic pop and classical, Urdu ghazals, Bollywood.
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Heroes, Grey's Anatomy, Monk
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Tolstoy, Gandhi, Martin Luther King
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Libra
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Post grad
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University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI US
Juan Juan Cole: 'The Geographic Gap': 'The Geographic Gap' | HUMNewsOf 237 countries and territor.. http://lnk.ms/39yLmPosted 12 hours ago from HelloTxt view more
About me: Author (Engaging the Muslim World, March, 2009; Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East, 2007), blogger at Informed Comment on Middle East, religion, politics, foreign affairs. Bi-weekly column at Salon.com. Done a lot of television and radio: Nightline, ABC Evening News, NBC's Today Show, CNN, CNN Headline News, 360 with Anderson Cooper, History Channel, Lehrer News Hour on PBS, Charlie Rose likewise. NPR Morning Edition, All Things Considered, numerous locally-produced NPR shows, Air America, too much radio to list. Opeds in Washington Post, LA Times, SF Chronicle, the Guardian, San Jose Mercury News, and others.
Oh well, I could do with a lot more proper friends on the planet. I seem to attract some and often repel others. One correspondent has just written me to say he thinks I am "a very nice person", and I take that as a compliment. I am mostly like the picture below.
Hi Juan, nice to meet you, except did I send you an invite? I did not realize one could add people as friends without knowing them. Anyhow, thanks for the add. I see we can do some great corresponding particularly on the Middle East and where I see Islam going, the interpretation of Daniel's prophecy about the "abomination standing in the Holy Place", etc.
Oh, and BTW, "Professor" is only a nickname that was bestowed on me at the Human Sciences Research Council (http://www.hsrc.ac.za/) by some colleagues who called me The Communicator.
Somehow, Professor Cole managed to miss the happenings in the far eastern corner of the Islamic world. If anyone is interested in the recent events in faraway Xinjiang or East Turkestan, and how they relate to the oil and gas concerns of the Middle Kingdom, I'd recommend having a look at these:
"Unrest in Xinjiang: China’s West turns Wild (06 July 2009)"
By the way, yesterday on NPR-Talk of the Nation, a caller recommended you for an Obama State Dept. cabinet position. I agree, and had been thinking that myself for some time.
Thanks for the add, it's a real honor. Your informed insight into Middle East affairs, especially since 9/11 has been invaluable, and whether or not it is appreciated by the government/media establishment, it has undoubtedly influenced the few but important sensible foreign policy decisions regarding the Iraq/Afghanistan/Terrorism foreign policy crisis.
