Dec 11, 2008

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.


SETA FOUNDATION FOR POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH
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Contact: Hilal Barýn, Tel: 405 61 51 * 210
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.

www.robinwright. net


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