Barbara Slavin
Senior Fellow, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
October 1, 2007 – July 31, 2008
Project Focus:
Iran Rising: Iran and its Clients in the Middle East
Negotiation, Peace Talks, Mediation | Political Islam | U.S. Foreign Policy
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Languages: Russian
Senior diplomatic reporter for USA Today since 1996, Barbara Slavin examines the rise of Iran’s regional influence in three current conflicts: Iraq, Lebanon, and in the Palestinian Territories. She draws from many years of reporting on the Middle East, which includes six trips to Iran, extensive coverage of U.S.-led negotiations between Arabs and Israelis, the Iran-Iraq war, the evolution of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism, among many other issues.
In addition to USA Today, Slavin has written for the New York Times, the Economist, Business Week, Newsday, and the Los Angeles Times and is a frequent commentator on National Public Radio, C-SPAN, and PBS. In 2006, she was a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where she completed her first book, Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S. and the Twisted Path to Confrontation, (St. Martin’s Press, 2007).
Slavin holds a B.A. in Russian language and literature from Harvard University.
Multimedia
Listen to audio from a book signing with Barbara Slavin.
Asia Society, December 17, 2007
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Related Items:
- John Limbert reviewed Slavin's book Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S. and the Twisted Path to Confrontation in the Middle East Journal, vol. 62, no. 2 (April 2008) |
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