Conference: "Barack Obama's Foreign Policy Agenda: The First Year"
SETA CONFERENCE
Barack Obama's Foreign Policy Agenda: The First Year
By Robin WRIGHT, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Date / Time: November 26, 2008 Wednesday / 16.00–17.30
Venue: SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research, ANKARA
We are pleased to invite you to a conference entitled "Barack Obama's Foreign
Policy Agenda: The First Year” to be held in SETA Foundation on Wednesday,
November 26, 2008. We very much hope you will be able to attend this special
conference by Robin Wright.
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P.S.: The language of the conference will be English. No translation services
will be provided.
Robin Wright has reported from more than a 140 countries on six continents for
The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Sunday Times of London, CBS
News and The Christian Science Monitor. She has also written for The New
Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York
Times, The International Herald Tribune and others. Her foreign tours include
the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and several years as a roving foreign
correspondent. She has covered a dozen wars and several revolutions. She most
recently covered U.S. foreign policy for The Washington Post. Among several
awards, Wright received the U.N. Correspondents Gold Medal, the National
Magazine Award for reportage from Iran in The New Yorker, and the Overseas
Press Club Award for "best reporting in any medium requiring exceptional
courage and initiative" for coverage of African wars. As an author, Ms. Wright
has been a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, the Brookings Institution, Yale University, Duke University, Stanford
University, and the University of California at Santa Barbara. Among her books,
The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran was selected as
one of the 25 most memorable books of the year 2000. She is also the author of
Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East, Sacred Rage: The Wrath of
Militant Islam, Flashpoints: Promise and Peril in a New World, and In the Name
of God: The Khomeini Decade. Currently she is writing a book on Turkey.
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