For a half century Robin Wright has traveled across 150 countries on seven continents as a global affairs correspondent, specializing in wars, revolutions and uprisings. She is a leading expert on the Middle East. She now writes for The New Yorker and is a former diplomatic correspondent for The Washington Post. She has also been a fellow at the Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, U.S. Institute of Peace, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars as well as at Yale, Dartmouth, Stanford, and the University of California.

She has numerous awards, including the U.N. Correspondents Gold Medal for international reporting, the National Magazine Award, the Overseas Press Club Award for “exceptional courage and initiative,” and was selected as journalist of the year by the American Academy of Diplomacy. She is a frequent analyst on prime-time news programs. Her eight books include Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic World, which was selected as the Best Book on International Affairs by the Overseas Press Club, and Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East, which both The New York Times and The Washington Post selected as one of the most notable books of the year.