Michael Rubin

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Michael Rubin.

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

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.^[1] Between 2004 and 2009, he was editor of the Middle East Quarterly. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including from the Council on Foreign Relations,^[2] and the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs.

He has lectured in history at Yale University, Hebrew 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.^[3]

Rubin is co-author of Eternal Iran (Palgrave, 2005) and Into the Shadows: Radical Vigilantes in Khatami's Iran (2001),^[4] and co-editor of Dissent and Reform in the Arab World (AEI Press, 2008).^[5]

References

1. ^ Yale University, "Democracy, Security, and Justice" lecture series, [1].
2. ^ Council on Foreign Relations Annual Report (2002), http://www.cfr.org/content/about/annual_report/ar_2002/032-39.pdf.
3. ^ Press Release, "Michael Rubin Appointed Middle East Quarterly Editor", http://www.meforum.org/press/613.
4. ^ ISBN 0944029450
5. ^ American Enterprise Institute scholar biography,[2].

External links

• Michael Rubin's official website
• Rubin's biography – from the American Enterprise Institute

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