Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic World
Robin Wright
Thursday, 01 Nov 2012 at 8:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Robin Wright is a journalist and foreign policy analyst. As a United States Institute for Peace Senior Fellow and a Wilson Center Distinguished Scholar, her projects explore new trends in the Islamic world that will be a major policy challenge for the United States and the West: the Arab revolts, the rise of political Islam and the counter-jihad against extremism. She edited The Iran Primer: Power, Politics and U.S. Policy and is the author of Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic World as well as The Islamists are Coming: Who They Really Are. Part of the World Affairs Series.No audio recording available.
Wright has reported from more than 140 countries on six continents for The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Sunday Times of London, CBS News and The Christian Science Monitor. She won the National Magazine Award for The New Yorker. She has also written for The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, TIME, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The International Herald Tribune and many others.
Her foreign tours include the Middle East, Europe, Africa and several years as a roving foreign correspondent in Latin America and Asia. She most recently covered U.S. foreign policy for The Washington Post.
Besides a long career in journalism, Wright has been a fellow at the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Yale University, Duke University, Stanford University, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Southern California. Wright received her M.A. and B.A. from the University of Michigan.
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