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]
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- [2]: Michael Rubin is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, he is also editor of the Middle East Quarterly. Between 2002 and 2004, Dr. Rubin worked as a staff advisor for Iran and Iraq in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, from which he was seconded to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.
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 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.
