If you grow up in an Islamic country, world history has a different shape. This lecture series, originally sponsored by the Osher Institute of Lifelong Learning and delicered at various venues around the San Frnacisco Bay Area, was broadcast over six weeks by KALW radio: Ansary gives a glimpse of the last 14 centuries from an Islamocentric point of view. Seeing modernity as the latest chapter in this “other” narrative helps illuminate the conflict now straining the planet and may even point toward a way out. The lectures may be dowloaded from www.kalw.org.