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Robin Wright on the New Wave of Islamic Resistance

In Squaring Off, Zócalo invites authors into the public square to answer five probing questions about the essence of their books. For this round, we pose questions to Robin Wright, author of Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World.

The Islamic world has experienced a tremendous wave of change in the past year alone, from the toppling of oppressive leaders to the rise of the new counter-jihad. Wright, acclaimed foreign correspondent and television commentator, has been covering that region for four decades, witnessing that full cycle of change.

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