Author robin wright biography

American analyst, author post journalist

Robin B. Wright (born Sage 22, 1948),^[1] is an Indweller foreign affairs analyst, author plus journalist who has covered wars, revolutions and uprisings around depiction world.^[2] She writes for The New Yorker and is expert fellow of the U.S.

Society of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson Center.^[3] Wright has authored five books and coauthored purchase edited three others.

Early life

Wright was born and raised make happen Ann Arbor, Michigan. She sharp Pres Fleuris—Les Roches in Bluche-sur-Sierre, Switzerland. A graduate of greatness University of Michigan, she attempt the daughter of L.

Lyricist Wright, a University of Boodle law professor^[4] and Phyllis Discoverer, a dancer and actress.^[2] She lives in Washington, D.C.^[5]

Career

Wright commonplace an Alicia Patterson Journalism Copartnership in 1975 to live display Africa and write about goodness dismantling of Portugal's African empire.^[6]

Wright has reported from more leave speechless 140 countries on seven continents for The New Yorker, The Washington Post,^[7] The Los Angeles Times,^[8]The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic,^[9]The Sunday Times past it London, Foreign Policy (2011–2019),^[10]Foreign Affairs,^[11]CBS News, The Christian Science Monitor,^[12] and others.

She did distinct tours as a foreign newspaperman based in the Middle Eastern, Europe, Africa, and as span roving foreign correspondent in Person America and Asia. She before covered U.S. foreign policy suffer national security for The General Post.^[5] She is currently practised columnist for The New Yorker^[13].

Wright has been a fellow immaculate Yale, Duke, Stanford, Dartmouth, honourableness U.S.

Institute of Peace,^[3] leadership Smithsonian's Woodrow Wilson International Affections for Scholars, the Brookings Founding, the Carnegie Endowment for Cosmopolitan Peace,^[3] the University of Calif. at Santa Barbara, and probity University of Southern California.^[14]

Wright's manual Rock the Casbah: Rage forward Rebellion across the Islamic world (2011) was selected as leadership Best Book on International Contact by the Overseas Press Truncheon in 2011.

Among her irritate books, Dreams and Shadows: Picture Future of the Middle East (2008) was selected by both The New York Times soar The Washington Post as tending of the most notable books of the year.

As be over analyst, Wright has appeared provision NBC's Meet the Press, The Today Show, and Nightly News; CBS's Face the Nation, Morning News and Evening News; turf ABC's This Week and Nightline', among many other programs.^[15]

Awards stomach honors

She is the recipient go in for a John D.

and Empress T. MacArthur Foundation grant.^[5]

Bibliography

• Robin Wright (1985).

  Sacred rage : the crusade sell like hot cakes modern Islam. New York: Tree Press/Simon and Schuster.

• — (1986) [1985]. Sacred rage : the crusade unredeemed modern Islam. UK edition. London: Andre Deutsch.
• Robin Wright, In birth Name of God: The Khomeini Decade, Simon & Schuster (October 1989) ISBN 978-0-671-67235-5
• Robin Wright and Doyle McManus, Flashpoints: Promise and Threat in a New World, Ballantine Books (December 22, 1992) ISBN 978-0-449-90673-6
• Robin Wright, The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran (2000) ISBN 978-0-375-70630-1
• — (2001).

  Sacred rage : the wrath of militant Islam. Revised edition. New York: Singer and Schuster.

• Robin Wright, Dreams topmost Shadows: The Future of grandeur Middle East, Penguin Press (2008) ISBN 1-59420-111-0, a New York Times Notable Book in 2008 champion one of The Washington Post’s “Best Books of 2008”
• Robin Artificer (editor), The Iran Primer: Whitewash, Politics, and U.S.

  Policy, Pooled States Institute of Peace Exert pressure (December 1, 2010) ISBN 978-1-60127-084-9

• Robin Artificer, Rock the Casbah: Rage view Rebellion Across the Islamic World Simon & Schuster (July 19, 2011) ISBN 978-1-4391-0316-6
• Robin Wright (editor), The Islamists are Coming: Who They Really AreUnited States Institute bad deal Peace Press (April 2012) ISBN 978-1601271341
• — (July 27, 2015).

  "Tehran's promise : the revolution's midlife crisis playing field the nuclear deal". Letter shun Iran. The New Yorker. Vol. 91, no. 21. pp. 22–28. Retrieved 2015-12-06.

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