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Biography

Barbara Slavin

Barbara Slavin is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center and Washington correspondent for Al-Monitor.com, a new website devoted to news from and about the Middle East. The author of a 2007 book, Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the US and the Twisted Path to Confrontation, sheis a regular commentator on U.S. foreign policy and Iran on NPR, PBS and C-SPAN.  

A career journalist, Slavin previously served as assistant managing editor for world and national security of The Washington Times, senior diplomatic reporter for USA TODAY, Cairo correspondent for The Economist and as an editorat The New York Times Week in Review.  

She has covered such key foreign policy issues as the US-led war on terrorism and in Iraq, policy toward "rogue" states, the Iran-Iraq war, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. She has traveled to Iran seven times and was the first U.S. newspaper reporter to interview Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Slavin also served as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where she wrote Bitter Friends, and as a senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, where she researched and wrote the report Mullahs, Money and Militias: How Iran Exerts Its Influence in the Middle East.

FEATURED EVENTS

Libya Revisited: Coalition Building and the Future of NATO Operations

On February 14, the Atlantic Council’s International Security Program hosted a Commanders Series public address and discussion with General Charles Bouchard, commander of the NATO military mission in Libya.

The Way Forward in Europe

Luxembourg’s Finance Minister Luc Frieden visited the Atlantic Council for an important speech and discussion on the future of the Eurozone on February 13. The event was part of the ongoing Mapping the Economic and Financial Future Speakers’ Forum co-hosted by the Council’s Global Business and Economics Program and Deutsche Bank.

Pivotal Partnerships: The Prospects for International Defense Cooperation in an Age of Austerity

On Wednesday, February 15, Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter joined the Atlantic Council for a public address and conversation on international defense cooperation.

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