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Robin Wright -
Washington Post Correspondent
"The Future of
the Middle East"
Tuesday, Oct. 28 6:30 pm - PAC Mainstage
FREE - Tickets Required
Robin Wright, award-winning Washington Post
diplomatic correspondent, explores
The Future of
the Middle East,
a region she has covered for three decades. “The
most daunting foreign policy challenge the U.S.
faces over the next decade,” she believes, “isn’t
just containing extremism, but channeling the
enormous energy behind political change into
peaceful directions.”
A
MacArthur Foundation grant recipient,
Wright’s 2008 book, the
latest of five, is “Dreams and Shadows: The Future
of the Middle East.” The New York Times
called it “a fluent and intelligent look”
at the region from Morocco to Iran from “one of
the best informed American journalists” covering
the region.
Wright
has reported from more than 130 countries on six
continents for the Post, Los Angeles Times, both
the London Times and Guardian, CBS News, The
Christian Science Monitor, Atlantic Monthly,
Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York
Times, and The International Herald Tribune. In
addition to the Middle East, she spent seven years
reporting from Africa, receiving the Overseas
Press Club Award for “best reporting in any medium
requiring exceptional courage and initiative” for
her war coverage there. She was awarded the
United Nations Correspondents Association Gold
Medal for coverage of international affairs and
the National Magazine Award for her New Yorker
reportage from Iran. |
