One of my columnists at Encarta is coming to Town Hall to speak about his latest book, "Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes" on May 14 at 7:30 pm if anyone's interested in going.

Quoted: People in the West share a common narrative of world history that runs from the Nile Valley and Mesopotomia, through Greece and Rome, to the rise of the secular state and the triumph of democracy; but this story largely omits an entire civilization, one that until recently saw itself at the center of world history and whose citizens have shared an entirely different narrative of world history for a thousand years.