Award-winning journalist and author Robin Wright has spent her professional life reporting from more than 140 countries on six continents; her foreign tours include the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and several years as a roving foreign correspondent. She has covered a dozen wars and several revolutions, and most recently covered U.S. foreign policy for The Washington Post. Her book, Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam, is a seminal treatise on terrorism, and she has written extensively about Muslim extremism, the Middle East and Iran’s place in global politics and the war on terrorism.
Wright lectures extensively around the United States and has been a television commentator on morning and evening news programs on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN and MSNBC as well as Meet the Press, Face the Nation, This Week, Nightline, PBS Newshour, Frontline, Charlie Rose, Washington Week in Review, Hardball, Morning Joe, Anderson Cooper 360, The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, Piers Morgan Tonight, The Colbert Report and HBO’s Real Time.
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The Future of the Middle East
Wright takes a look at the activists and movements now beginning to change the world’s most volatile region. The challenges are still many. But almost a decade after the 9/11 attacks, a wide array of characters – from feminists and bloggers, thinkers and judges, religious leaders and students – are rejecting extremism while also challenging the status quo in unusual ways.
Obama’s World: New Approaches By a New Administration
President Obama is changing America’s dealings with the world on issues ranging from Iraq and Afghanistan, to Russia and China, and from energy to terrorism. Wright looks at the 10 pressing problems the new president will face around the world – and how his administration will tackle them.
The 21st Century World: Challenges and Opportunities Ahead
As a journalist and author who has lived or traveled in over 140 countries in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas, Wright takes a look at trends around the world in the 21st century.
Iran: The Next Confrontation?
Thirty years after its Islamic revolution, Iran is more of a challenge than ever before because of its controversial nuclear program. Bush opted to use military might in Afghanistan and Iraq. How will Obama deal with the challenge of Iran, which has emerged as the superpower of the Middle East?
Women of the World
Women are one of the two most important engines of change worldwide in the 21st century. From a woman born into a Moroccan harem to a South African doctor taking on poverty and an Iranian human rights lawyer who won the Nobel Peace Prize, an eclectic array of women are redefining the goals and means of activism. Hear their stories from someone who has met them and can analyze what they mean for countries around the world.
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