Robin Wright is the Chief Diplomatic Correspondent for the L.A. Times's Washington bureau.
Wright is both an extraordinary, seasoned journalist and a highly respected Middle East scholar who lived throughout that region for five years. She has reported from more than 130 countries as a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, CBS News, The Washington Post, The Sunday Times of London, and the Christian Science Monitor. She has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, Civilization, Current History, The Middle East Journal, The New York Times, and the Guardian.
Wright is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation grant and the 1989 National Magazine Award for her reportage from Iran in the 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.
Wright was a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Poynter fellow at Yale, a senior fellow at Duke, a Media Fellow at Stanford, and a Regents Fellow at UC Santa Barbara.
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Most impressive, however, is her ability to assess the situation
with a clear eye, an objective attitude, and enormous
intelligence.
Anthony Lewis Sacred Rage is must reading -- and fascinating
reading -- for all those who want to understand the fanatical
violence of the Middle East.
Roger Mudd If ever there was the right book on the right subject
for the right readers at the right time, Sacred Rage is it.
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