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Prior to joining USA TODAY, she was a Washington-based writer for The Economist and the Los Angeles Times, covering domestic and foreign policy issues. From 1985-89, she was The Economist correspondent in Cairo. She traveled widely in the Middle East, covering the Iran-Iraq war, the 1986 U.S. bombing of Libya, the political evolution of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism. Earlier in the 1980s, she served as The Economist correspondent in Beijing and also reported from Japan and South Korea. Ms. Slavin began her journalistic career as a reporter and editor for United Press International and also spent six years at The New York Times as a writer and editor for the Week in Review section. She was educated at Harvard University, where she studied Russian and was awarded a BA with honors. She also studied at Leningrad State University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. |
Barbara Slavin is an expert on U.S. foreign policy and the author
of a 2007 book on Iran entitled "Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran,
the U.S. and the Twisted Path to Confrontation.” A contributor to AOLNews.com and Foreignpolicy.com among other media outlets, Ms.
Slavin was Assistant Managing Editor for World and National Security
of The Washington Times from July 2008 through December 2009. Prior to
that, she served for 12 years as senior diplomatic reporter for USA
TODAY where she covered such key issues as the U.S.-led war on
terrorism and in Iraq, policy toward "rogue" states and the
Arab-Israeli conflict. She accompanied three secretaries of State on
their official travels and also reported solo from Iran, Libya,
Israel, Egypt, North Korea, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and Syria. Ms.
Slavin, who has lived in Russia, China, Japan and Egypt, is a regular
commentator on U.S. foreign policy on National Public Radio, the
Public Broadcasting System and C-Span. She wrote her book on Iran,
which she has visited seven times, as a public policy scholar at the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2006 and spent
October 2007-July 2008 as senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of
Peace, where she researched and wrote a report on Iranian regional
influence, entitled “Mullahs, Money and Militias: How Iran Exerts Its
Influence in the Middle East.”