Michael Rubin (historian)
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(AEI) and a senior lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School
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http://www.aei.org/rubin.
A native of Philadelphia, Rubin earned a Ph.D. in history from Yale University
Yale University
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in 1999. His dissertation, The Making of Modern Iran, 1858-1909: Communications, Telegraph and Society won Yale's John Addison Porter Prize. Between 2004 and 2009, he was editor of the Middle East Quarterly
Middle East Quarterly
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. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including from the Council on Foreign Relations
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, and the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs.
He has lectured in history at Yale University
Yale University
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, 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
Iran
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and Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, from which he was seconded to the Coalition Provisional Authority
Coalition Provisional Authority
The Coalition Provisional Authority was established as a transitional government following the invasion of Iraq by the United States and its allies, members of the Multi-National Force – Iraq which was formed to oust the government of Saddam Hussein in 2003...
in Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
.
Rubin is co-author of Eternal Iran (Palgrave, 2005) and Into the Shadows: Radical Vigilantes in Khatami's Iran (2001), and co-editor of Dissent and Reform in the Arab World (AEI Press, 2008).
External links
- Michael Rubin's official website
- Rubin's biography – from the American Enterprise InstituteAmerican Enterprise InstituteThe American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research is a conservative think tank founded in 1943. Its stated mission is "to defend the principles and improve the institutions of American freedom and democratic capitalism—limited government, private enterprise, individual liberty and...