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Barry M. Rubin (28 January 1950 – February 3, 2014) was an American-born Israeli writer and academic on terrorism and Middle Eastern affairs. 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. 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 the 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. Personal life Rubin was born in Washington, D.C., and was married to Judith Colp Rubin. He died on February 3, 2014, in Tel Aviv after an 18-month battle with lung cancer. References External links Rubin Center where free full-text books can be read online or downloaded. Archived 2015-05-31 at the Wayback Machine Rubin Reports on Blogger Retrieved October 20, 2017. Appearances on C-SPAN. Discover the Barry Rubin popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Barry Rubin books.

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  • Paved with Good Intentions synopsis, comments

    Paved with Good Intentions

    Barry Rubin

    Responding to a pressconference question in February, 1980 about the United States role in the 1953 return to power of the shah, President Carter replied that the events were not w...

  • Children of Dolhinov synopsis, comments

    Children of Dolhinov

    Barry Rubin

    It is a titanic story though one rather slowmoving by contemporary standards. In 79, the Temple destroyed, the Jewish rebellion crushed, the Romans enslaved thousands and deported ...

  • Istanbul Intrigues synopsis, comments

    Istanbul Intrigues

    Barry Rubin

    This is the story of Istanbulbut also of Turkey, the Balkans, and the eastern Mediterraneanduring World War II, based on extensive interviews and the use of archives, especially th...

  • The Tragedy of the Middle East synopsis, comments

    The Tragedy of the Middle East

    Barry Rubin

    I’ll confess that in some ways, The ‘Tragedy of the Middle East is my favorite of everything I’ve written. The title was chosen in great sincerity because the theme here is to expl...

  • Assimilation and its Discontents synopsis, comments

    Assimilation and its Discontents

    Barry Rubin

    When I realized that nobody had written a comprehensive history of Jewish assimilation, I knew that I had to try doing it myself. It was a remarkable learning experience as I resea...

  • Long War for Freedom synopsis, comments

    Long War for Freedom

    Barry Rubin

    This book foresaw the “Arab Spring” of 2011. It was obvious years before that the old Arab nationalist dictatorships had failed and were being challenged by two forces: liberal dem...

  • The Arab States and the Palestine Conflict synopsis, comments

    The Arab States and the Palestine Conflict

    Barry Rubin

    Hundreds of books and thousands of articles have been devoted to the history and contemporary course of the ArabIsraeli conflict. The confrontation within Palestine, the participat...

  • The Truth about Syria synopsis, comments

    The Truth about Syria

    Barry Rubin

    Beyond the political typology it embodies, Syria also provides the best case study of what has happened in the Arab world, and thus in the Middle East, during the last halfcentury....

  • Secrets of State synopsis, comments

    Secrets of State

    Barry Rubin

    This book is a history of the State Department but, more broadly, of the American foreign policymaking process. It narrates the development of both the decisionmaking institutions ...

  • Islamic Fundamentalism in Egyptian Politics synopsis, comments

    Islamic Fundamentalism in Egyptian Politics

    Barry Rubin

    Following the Victory of Iran’s Islamic revolution in 1979 and the murder of Egypt’s President Anwar alSadat in 1981, many studies were undertaken and published on radical Islamic ...

  • The Self-Care Project synopsis, comments

    The Self-Care Project

    Jayne Hardy

    'Refreshing, heartfelt and humble...a game changer in promoting positive mental health' Sarah Turner, bestselling author of THE UNMUMSY MUMThere's a damaging misconception in socie...