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Robin Wright

Global Affairs Correspondent
The Los Angeles Times

Robin Wright has reported from more than a 120 countries on six continents as a foreign correspondent for The Los Angeles Times, The Sunday Times of London, CBS News, The Washington Post and The Christian Science Monitor. She has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Civilization, Current History, Middle East Journal, The New York Times, The Times (London), The Guardian (London), The International Herald Tribune and many others. She is currently Global Affairs correspondent for The Los Angeles Times.

Ms. Wright won the 1989 National Magazine Award for her reportage from Iran in The New Yorker. She also won the Overseas Press Club Award for "best reporting in any medium requiring exceptional courage and initiative" for the Angolan war. And she is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation grant.

Besides a long career in journalism, Ms. Wright was a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Poynter fellow at Yale University, a fellow at Duke University, a Media Fellow at Stanford University and a Regents' fellow at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She also lectures extensively around the United States, in Europe and Asia and has been a television commentator on ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN evening news programs, The MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour, Meet the Press, Face the Nation, This Week with David Brinkley, Today, Good Morning America, CBS Morning News, Nightline, Frontline, Larry King Live, Washington Week, as well as several other American, European and Asian programs.

Her foreign tours include five years in the Middle East, two years in Europe, seven years in Africa, and several years as a roving foreign correspondent in those areas as well as Latin America and Asia. Since 1989, she has been writing about the patterns of global change.

Her latest book is The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran, due out in February 2000. She is also the author of Flashpoints: Promise and Peril in a New World, co-authored with Doyle McManus, which has been translated into six languages, Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam and In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade.




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