An Iranian Woman Finds Her Might, in “The Smallest Power” - New Yorker
In “The Smallest Power,” the filmmaker Andy Sarjahani captures the power of an individual act of resistance amid the chaos of nationwide disorder.
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In “The Smallest Power,” the filmmaker Andy Sarjahani captures the power of an individual act of resistance amid the chaos of nationwide disorder.
Iran's government has put forth a new spokesperson to defend its policies toward women: the president's wife. Jamileh Alamolhoda accompanied her husband to the annual meeting of the United Nations in New York. She took questions from NPR as her country marked the one-year anniversary of nationwide uprisings that were triggered by the death of...
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his first public speech since the Wagner Group marched toward Moscow. He denounced the mercenary group's leader and gave more details about the deal that staved off the mutiny...
Beware predictions about Vladimir Putin’s imminent demise. The informal rule in foreign policy circles is that an autocrat can sustain power if he has the support of 30% of the population. He then has the requisite manpower to run the state bureaucracy, police society, either pay taxes or corruption tolls...
Veteran Middle East journalist Robin Wright tells Fareed that, in Iran, we are witnessing the world's first counter-revolution led by women...
The girls and women of Iran are just bitchin’ brave, flipping the bird at its Supreme Leader in a challenge to one of the most significant revolutions in modern history. Day after dangerous day, on open streets and in gated schools, in a flood of tweets and brazen videos, they have ridiculed a theocracy that..
The fatwa against Salman Rushdie was never about Salman Rushdie. Journalist Robin Wright explains.
According to The New Yorker Contributing Writer Robin Wright, said much of Albright's legacy outside of her political diplomacy centered around supporting other women.
Katie spoke to Robin Wright, a journalist and author who’s covered wars, revolutions and uprisings around the world, to get some answers.
1:18 Robin Wright has reported from more than 140 countries on six continents for The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, TIME, The Atlantic, The Sunday Times of London, CBS News, Foreign Affairs and many others. Her foreign tours include the Middle East, Europe, Africa and several years as a roving foreign correspondent worldwide. She has covered a dozen wars and several revolutions. Until 2008, she covered U.S. foreign policy for The Washington Post...