Robin B. Wright
Autor(a) de Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East
About the Author
Robin Wright has reported from more than 120 countries as a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, CBS News, The Sunday Times (London), and the Christian Science Monitor: She was a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Yale University, Duke University, and mostrar mais Stanford University's Hoover Institute. She won the National Magazine Award for her reporting on Iran for The New Yorker and was the recipient of an Overseas Press Club Award for best reporting requiring exceptional courage and initiative. mostrar menos
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(eng) Do not combine with Robin Wright; there are multiple authors with this name.
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- Data de nascimento
- 1948-08-27
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Locais de residência
- Washington, DC, USA
- Educação
- University of Michigan
- Ocupações
- journalist
- Nota de desambiguação
- Do not combine with Robin Wright; there are multiple authors with this name.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 8
- Membros
- 790
- Popularidade
- #32,237
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 13
- ISBN
- 28
- Línguas
- 1
The author tries to build a case that modern Muslims are increasingly going against extremism and tries to point out signs of this. She is simply over optimistic. As the saying goes "one swallow does not make a spring", and the proverbial Arab Spring was this little sad swallow coming before its time.
The Author spoke at length about Iran, Egypt, Iraq, and Yemen and even mentioned some "developments" in Afghanistan. Conspicuously absent from this book, however is any attempt to look at Syria. It was mentioned in one sentence in passing. Perhaps because the unfolding events there demonstrate the exact opposite of what she was trying to prove. The autocratic regimes winning the day through the alarming rise of extremist ideology.
The book taught me a few things about isolated and small movements against the tide of Islamism. At some other time this could have been enough to reassure a less engaged western mind. But it is much less convincing for someone who lived in the Islamic world or even for someone enlightened enough and living in this turbulent age. We need a lot more than a sprinkling of dissents to make extremism decline for good.
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