Michael Rubin

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Michael Rubin (* 1971) is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a senior lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School [3], and an Expert at Wikistrat.[1]

A native of Philadelphia, 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 John Addison Porter Prize.[2] Between 2004 and 2009, he was editor of the Middle East Quarterly. He has received fellowships from the Council on Foreign Relations,[3] and the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs.

Rubin has lectured in history at Yale University, Hebrew University, Johns Hopkins University, and worked as visiting lecturer at Universities of Sulaymani, Salahuddin, and Duhok, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Between 2002 and 2004, Rubin worked as a country director for Iran and Iraq in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, from which he was seconded to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.[4] Rubin currently teaches senior U.S. Army, U.S. Marine, and U.S. Navy leadership prior to their deployment to Iraq, the Persian Gulf, and Afghanistan. [5]

Rubin is author of Into the Shadows: Radical Vigilantes in Khatami's Iran (2001),[6] co-author of Eternal Iran (Palgrave, 2005) and co-editor of Dissent and Reform in the Arab World (AEI Press, 2008).[7]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Wikistrat profile on Michael Rubin". Wikistrat. http://www.wikistrat.com/analyst/michael-rubin/. Retrieved 18 January 2012. 
  2. ^ Yale University, "Democracy, Security, and Justice" lecture series, [1].
  3. ^ Council on Foreign Relations Annual Report (2002), http://www.cfr.org/content/about/annual_report/ar_2002/032-39.pdf.
  4. ^ Press Release, "Michael Rubin Appointed Middle East Quarterly Editor", http://www.meforum.org/press/613.
  5. ^ Michael Rubin professional c.v.
  6. ^ ISBN 0944029450
  7. ^ American Enterprise Institute scholar biography,[2].

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