Juan Cole is a professor of modern Middle Eastern history at the University of Michigan and a blogger at Informed Content. He is the author of The New Arabs: How the Millenial Generation is Changing the Middle East, Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East, Sacred Spaces and Holy Wars and Engaging the Muslim World.
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