Drew Forum Features Award-winning Foreign Affairs Expert

The 2011/12 Forum series will continue on March 21 with an event featuring lauded journalist and foreign affairs expert Robin Wright. This year’s series focuses on terrorism and national security in recognition of the 10^th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

Wright most recently worked as a journalist for the Washington Post covering foreign policy. Prior to this, she wrote for many other periodicals, including the Los Angeles Times, the Sunday Times of London, the Christian Science Monitor, the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, the Huffington Post and Foreign Policy. 

Her work was recognized in 2004 by the American Academy of Diplomacy, which named her journalist of the year.  She has also received the U.N. Correspondents Association Gold Medal and the National Press Club Award.  Her coverage of Iran for the New Yorker earned her a National Magazine Award and her reporting on Africa was honored with an Overseas Press Club Award.  She was also the recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grant and an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship.      

Wright is the author of six books, the most recent of which is “Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World,” which discusses the recent widespread rejection of extremism among Middle Eastern Muslims.  This book will serve as the theme of her talk at Drew.  As an author, she has held fellowships at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Brookings Institution, and Yale, Duke and Stanford universities. 

The event will begin at 8 p.m. in the Dorothy Young Center for the Arts Concert Hall on the Drew campus. A limited number of single-event tickets are available to this subscribers-only program.  To purchase tickets, which are $32, please contact the Drew box office at 973/408-3917 or visit www.drew.edu/forum.