Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic World
| Date/Time: | Thursday, 01 Nov 2012 at 8:00 pm |
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| Location: | Great Hall, Memorial Union |
| Cost: | Free |
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| Phone: | 515-294-9934 |
| Channel: | Lecture Series |
| Categories: | Lectures |
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Robin Wright is the author of "Rock the Cashbah: Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic World" as well as "The Islamists are Coming: Who They Really Are."
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.