Middle East Strategy at Harvard

Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research for International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and a professor at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel. He is also editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) and the journal Turkish Studies. He writes the Middle East column for the Jerusalem Post.

His latest books are The Truth About Syria (Palgrave-MacMillan, April 2007) and The Future of the Middle East (Sharpe, in press). His recent edited works include Iraq After Saddam (Sharpe, in press), Global Survey of Islamism (Sharpe, in press), the three-volume collection Political Islam (Routledge), and an eight-volume introductory book series to the Middle East (Sharpe, in press).

Prof. Rubin’s books include The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East; Hating America: A History; Yasir Arafat: A Political Biography; The Tragedy of the Middle East; The Transformation of Palestinian Politics; Revolution Until Victory: The Politics and History of the PLO; Cauldron of Turmoil: America in the Middle East; Istanbul Intrigues; Modern Dictators; Secrets of State: The State Department and the Struggle over U.S. Foreign Policy; Paved with Good Intentions: The American Experience and Iran; The Arab States and the Palestine Conflict; Islamic Fundamentalism in Egyptian Politics; The Great Powers in the Middle East, 1941-1947; Assimilation and Its Discontents; International News and the American Media and How Others Report Us.

He has edited five books on terrorism, the three-volume collection Political Islam, an eight-volume introductory book series to the Middle East, Iraq After Saddam, The Region at the Center of the World: Crises and Quandaries in the Contemporary Persian Gulf; Revolutionaries and Reformers: Contemporary Islamist Movements in the Middle East; Critical Essays on Israeli, Society, Politics, and Culture; and From War to Peace, 1973-1993. His co-edited books include Anti-American Terrorism and the Middle East; The Israel‑Arab Reader; The Armed Forces in the Contemporary Middle East; America and Its Allies; Turkey in World Politics; Political Parties in Turkey; Turkey and the European Union, Turkey’s Economy in Crisis, Iraq’s Road to War; The Central American Crisis Reader; The Human Rights Reader and Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy.

He is the editor of two book series: “The Middle East in Focus” (Palgrave-Macmillan); and “Military and Strategic Issues in the Middle East” (Taylor & Francis).

Prof. Rubin has written more than 40 book chapters. His articles also have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Journal of Democracy, Middle East Quarterly, The National Interest, the Washington Quarterly, The New Republic, and many other publications. Prof. Rubin has been on “Nightline,” “Face the Nation,” “The David Brinkley Show,” “CBS News,” “The MacNeil Lehrer NewsHour,” “The Larry King Show,” CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. Among the newspapers around the world for which he has written are La Vanguardia in Spain, the Frankfurter Zeitung in Germany; the National Post, Globe and Mail in Canada; La Opinion, Liberal Forum, and Limes in Italy; The Age, The Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, and the Australian Financial Review in Australia; and Zaman, Referens, and Radikal in Turkey.

He has been a Fulbright, Council on Foreign Relations Fellow, and Washington Institute for Near East Policy fellow; as well as a U.S. Institute of Peace and Hebrew University Leonard Davis Center grantee. He has taught at American University, Bar-Ilan University, Georgetown University Hebrew University, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Monash University, and Tel Aviv University.

Prof. Rubin holds his doctorate from Georgetown University.

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