Nyu alumni as well as the faculty and General Community as well. It is a pleasure to be hosting tonight. Welcome back to nyu it is a pleasure to have you here. We will have time later for questions and answers and a book signing. I want to start the evening i giving a brief introduction. Very active since graduating so i dont need to cover everything that i will leave it up to him to fill in the gaps. Currently a senio senior fellowd director of the Development Center for global studies, policy, excuse me. He is a commentator and broadcaster who wishes he could be a writer, and i think you are, so i very much enjoy your writing. Among other things, hes the Muslim Leadership Initiative at the institute and has appeared on Major Networks and the essays and reviews have been published at the washington post, the times, cnn, the guardian, foreignpolicy. Author of a novel published by penguin in 2006 and tonight event is the launch of his new book out to b how to be a musd american story. P