Eric Boehlert a Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, he is the author of Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush (Free Press, 2006) and Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press (Free Press, 2009). He worked for five years as a senior writer for Salon.com, where he wrote extensively about media and politics. Prior to that, he worked as a contributing editor for Rolling Stone. 

Cleo Paskal specializes in the geopolitical, security, and economic implications of environmental change from global warming. She is a Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London, a consultant for the U.S. Department of Energy, NATO and the OSCE. She is one of three recipients of the 2010 Awards of Special Merit from the Grantham Prize for her latest book, Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map.

Ambassador Akbar Ahmed is Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United Kingdom. He is now the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at the American University in Washington DC, the First Distinguished Chair of Middle East and Islamic Studies at the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has written over a dozen award-winning books, including Discovering Islam, which formed the basis of the BBC six-part TV series called “Living Islam,” and the book Journey into Islam. He recently completed a book and movie project called, Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam, which we are offering up today for a donation of $125.00.

Qamar-ul Huda is a Senior Program Officer in the Religion and Peacemaking Program and a scholar of Islam at U.S. Institute of Peace. His area of expertise is Islamic theology, intellectual history, ethics, comparative ethics, the language of violence, conflict resolution and non-violence in contemporary Islam. His research is on comparative Sunni-Shi’ite interpretations of social justice, ethics, dialogue, and the ways in which the notion of justice is used and appropriated. His book, The Crescent and Dove: Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam, provides a critical analysis of models of nonviolent strategies, peace building efforts, and conflict resolution methods in Muslim communities. We are offering up his book today for a donation of $80.00.