Ms. Cobban is a veteran writer,
researcher, and program organizer on global and affairs. She is a
Contributing Editor of
Boston
Review, where her recent
articles have included in-depth essays on current Middle East
issues and on post-genocide justice issues in Rwanda. She
has an affiliation as 'Friend in Washington' with the
Washington, DC-based Friends Committee on National Legislation and is
the author and proprietor of
"Just
World News", a lively blog on international issues that she has
maintained since 2003.
Ms. Cobban has published seven books. The most recent,
Re-engage! America and the World After
Bush was published
by Paradigm Publishers in May 2008. Congressman Lee
Hamilton, Co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, described
it as, "An impassioned, thought-provoking, and accessible
brief from a highly esteemed journalist on how all of us - as
individuals - can act
to help better our country and world." Her previous books include:
- Amnesty
after Atrocity?: Healing Nations after Genocide and War Crimes
(Paradigm, 2006.)
- The Moral Architecture of World Peace: Nobel Laureates Discuss
our
Global Future (University Press of Virginia, 2000.)
- Four books on Middle Eastern diplomacy, politics, and society,
including most recently The
Israeli-Syrian Peace Talks: 1991-96 and Beyond (U.S.
Institute of Peace, 2000.)
Born in England in 1952, Ms. Cobban received her B.A. and M.A. from
Oxford University. From 1974 through 1981, she worked as a
journalist
in the Middle East, including five years as a Beirut-based
correspondent for
The Christian Science Monitor, and
The
Sunday Times of London. Since 1982, she has lived primarily
in the United States, though her work has taken her back to the Middle
East (many times), and to many parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Ms. Cobban contributed a regular column on global affairs to
The
Christian Science Monitor from 1990 until the paper stopped
having regular columnists in 2007 and has published widely in other
print media on three continents. She has considerable experience in
broadcast media: she worked briefly as a reporter for the BBC in the
1970s and has been a guest on many leading radio and broadcast
discussion shows in the U.S. She currently divides her time
between Washington DC and Charlottesville, Virginia.