Guest lecturer: "Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic World."

Posted February 15, 2012 10:00 pm

Lori Hart

Author Robin Wright will deliver a lecture with the same title as her latest book Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic World, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 26.

Dr. Wright has authored a number of books on the Middle East. As a news correspondent, she has reported from more than 140 countries on six continents for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, TIME, Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs and others.

Wright has been a fellow at Yale, Duke and Stanford and been honored with many awards including the U.N. Correspondents Gold Medal, the National Magazine Award, and the Overseas Press Club Award for "best reporting in any medium requiring exceptional courage and initiative."

Free and open to the public, the lecture takes place in room 145 of the Science Center, located at 430 Howard S. in Wheaton. For more information, please contact the Department of Politics and International Relations at (630) 752-5129.

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