Robin Wright

Robin Wright is a journalist, author and foreign policy analyst.  Her project focuses on Iran, the Middle East, South Asia and the wider Islamic world.  She is exploring what has happened to the Islamic world in the decade since 9/11 and the thinkers and trends that will define the future of the Islamic world over the next decade, when many of the most difficult conflicts and intransigent ideologies facing the United States will be in the fifty-seven countries of the Islamic word.  Wright will document the voices now struggling to adapt traditions and to reinterpret Koranic scripture.

Robin Wright has reported from more than 140 countries on six continents for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Sunday Times of London, CBS News and The Christian Science Monitor. She has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, TIME, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The International Herald Tribune and many others. Her foreign tours include five years in the Middle East, two years in Europe, seven years in Africa, and several years as a roving foreign correspondent, including travels throughout Latin America and Asia. She most recently covered U.S. foreign policy for The Washington Post. Besides a long career in journalism, Ms. Wright has been a fellow at the Smithsonian's Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 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 MA and BA from the University of Michigan.

Publications:

• Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East.  New York: Penguin Books, 2008
• The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran. New York: Vintage, 2000.
• Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam. New York: Touchstone, 1985, updated 2001.
• Flashpoints: Promise and Peril in a New World. New York: Ballantine, 1991.
• In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade. New York: Touchstone, 1989.