Internet Talk Shows
Internet Talk Show: Robin Wright
Robin Wright, award-winning Washington Post diplomatic correspondent, was WWUs guest for an Internet Talk Show on October 29, 2008. Dr. Kathleen Young, WWU Professor of Anthropology, moderated the talk show. The show was streamed live from the web, then archived for later viewing. Below is the full talk show.
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Robin Wright, award-winning Washington Post diplomatic correspondent, explores The Future of The Middle East, a region she has covered for three decades. "The most daunting foreign policy challenge the U.S. faces over the next decade," she believes, "isn't just containing extremism, but channeling the enormous energy behind political change into peaceful directions." A MacArthur Foundation grant recipient, Wright's 2008 book, the latest of five, is Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East. The New York Times called it "a fluent and intelligent look" at the region from Morocco to Iran from "one of the best informed American journalists" covering the region. Wright has reported from more than 130 countries on six continents for the Post, Los Angeles Times, both the London Times and Guardian, CBS News, The Christian Science Monitor, Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, andThe International Herald Tribune. In addition to the Middle East, she spent seven years reporting from Africa, receiving the Overseas Press Club Award for "best reporting in any medium requiring exceptional courage and initiative" for her war coverage there. She was awarded the United Nations Correspondents Association Gold Medal for coverage of international affairs and the National Magazine Award for her New Yorker reportage from Iran.