Barbara Slavin

Barbara Slavin is a distinguished fellow at the Stimson Center, where she is an expert on the Middle East & North Africa. She is also a lecturer in international affairs at George Washington University. Before joining the Stimson Center, she was director of the Future of Iran Initiative and a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. She is the author of “Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation.” She is a regular commentator on U.S. foreign policy and Iran on NPR, PBS, and C-SPAN. Previously, Slavin served as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Slavin is a former career journalist and previously wrote as a columnist for Al-Monitor.com, the assistant managing editor for world and national security at The Washington Times, a senior diplomatic reporter for USA Today, the Cairo and Beijing correspondent for The Economist, and an editor at The New York Times Week in Review.