Archive: August, 2011
Trudy Rubin, Inquirer Opinion Columnist
I'm answering questions from readers about Libya in the video below.Send me more queries and I'll respond later in the week.
Trudy Rubin, Inquirer Opinion Columnist
The battle for Libya is a side show that is detracting attention from the much more important rebellion in Syria and the ongoing political struggles in Egypt and Tunisia.
We all know that post- Qadhafi Libya will be messy and chaotic. What we don’t know is whether the country can hold together, and whether Islamists will emerge as a powerful force in the new political scene.
In the video below, I talk of the good news and the bad news about the Libyan endgame.
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Trudy Rubin’s Worldview column runs on Thursdays and Sundays. In 2009-2011 she has made four lengthy trips to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Over the past seven years, she visited Iraq eleven times, and also wrote from Iran, Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, China, and South Korea. She is the author of Willful Blindness: the Bush Administration and Iraq, a book of her columns from 2002-2004. In 2001 she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary and in 2008 she was awarded the Edward Weintal prize for international reporting. In 2010 she won the Arthur Ross award for international commentary from the Academy of American Diplomacy.
Reach Trudy at trubin@phillynews.com.
Trudy Rubin
Inquirer Opinion Columnist
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