Barry Rubin
Career
Rubin was the director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) and a professor at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel. He was the editor of the GLORIA center website. The GLORIA center has since been renamed to the Rubin Center in his honor.{{Cite web|url=http://www.rubincenter.org/about-2/|title=About|website=www.rubincenter.org|access-date=2016-08-05}} He was also editor of the journal Turkish Studies.
His book Israel: An Introduction was published by Yale University Press in 2012. Rubin's more recent books include:
- The Israel-Arab Reader,
- The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East, and
- The Truth About Syria.
His latest book, entitled Silent Revolution (2014), describes how the Left rose to political power and cultural dominance in the USA during recent years.
Media
Rubin was a guest on This Week with David Brinkley, Nightline, Face the Nation, The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour, The Larry King Show, and others on CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. Among the newspapers around the world for which he has written are La Vanguardia in Spain, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Germany; The National Post and The Globe and Mail in Canada; La Opinión, Liberal Forum, and Limes in Italy; The Age, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The Australian Financial Review in Australia; Zaman, Referans, and Radikal in Turkey; and The Pioneer in India. Rubin was a frequent contributor to the Middle East column in The Jerusalem Post. His Rubin Reports columns dating back to November, 2011 appeared in The Jewish Press.{{cite web | url=http://www.jewishpress.com/author/barryrubin/ | title=Barry Rubin | publisher=The Jewish Press | accessdate=May 30, 2015}}
Personal life
Rubin was born in Washington, D.C., and was married to Judith Colp Rubin.https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/in-my-words/ He died on February 3, 2014, in Tel Aviv after an 18-month battle with lung cancer.{{cite web|title=Barry Rubin, Israeli columnist and professor, dies aged 64|url=http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/.premium-1.572125|work=Haaretz|date=February 3, 2014}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.rubincenter.org/ Rubin Center] where [http://www.rubincenter.org/pt_free_books/ free full-text books] can be read online or downloaded. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150531104722/http://www.rubincenter.org/pt_free_books/ |date=2015-05-31 }}
- {{blogger|rubinreports|Rubin Reports}} Retrieved October 20, 2017.
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