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Juan Cole
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JUAN COLE is Professor of Middle East and South Asian History at the University of Michigan. He grew up in a military family, with two tours in France and one in Ethiopia. He has an MA (1978) in Arabic Studies/History from the American University in Cairo. He has published Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East (1993), about the 1882 Urabi Revolution that provoked the British colonization of Egypt; he used private expatriate Iranian archives to produce a book in 1998 on 19th Century Iranian millenarianism; and Sacred Space and Holy War (2002), a history of Shiite Islamic responses to Modernity that includes substantial attention to Iraq. Since September 11 he has become a public intellectual, writing widely on issues in the War on Terror, al-Qaeda, and the Iraq War, with opinion pieces in major newspapers and at Salon.com.
