Michael Rubin

Michael Rubin is a specialist on Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Rubin assists David Wurmser and Richard N. Perle at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Rubin is also a member of the Middle East Forum.[1]

A native of Philadelphia, Dr. Rubin earned a Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 1999. His dissertation, The Making of Modern Iran, 1858-1909: Communications, Telegraph and Society won Yale's top John Addison Porter Prize. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including from the Council on Foreign Relations, Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs, and The Washington Institute, where he was a Soref fellow in 1999-2000.

He has lectured in history at Yale University, Hebrew University, and at three different universities in northern Iraq.

Dr. Rubin is author with Patrick Clawson of "Eternal Iran: Continuity and Chaos" (Palgrave, 2005) and of the Washington Institute Policy Paper Into the Shadows: Radical Vigilantes in Khatami's Iran (2001), in addition to numerous scholarly and policy articles. He has published his opinion articles and analyses widely in such forums as the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New Republic, National Review, and Commentary. He has appeared on CNN, Fox, BBC, MSNBC, C-Span's Washington Journal, and ABC's Nightline. He serves on the editorial board of the Middle East Intelligence Bulletin and has lectured in the United States, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East to both military and civilian audiences.

Mr. Rubin has traveled widely in Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Aghanistan, Central Asia, the Arab world, and Israel.

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Headlines

• 1 Oct. 2002: "Michael Rubin, advocate of Iranian freedom, becomes Iran-Iraq director at the Pentagon. Visiting scholar at the American Enterprise institute and regular commentator in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere, Rubin will now be in charge of the Pentagon's programs to help the Iranian and Iraqi people in their march toward freedom. In a speech earlier this month in Los angeles, where Rubin excoriated the cleric regime in Tehran, he also condemned American reporters such as the Los Angeles Times' Robin Wright who 'misrepresent human rights in Iran.'"

• May 19, 2004: "Michael Rubin--a young staffer at the American Enterprise Institute who's just left the Pentagon, where he played a small role as a neocon cog in the Office of Special Plans war machine--let a herd of cats out of the bag about his favorite Iraqi phony, Ahmad Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress."