Trudy Rubin's Blog http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/trudy-rubin RSS Feed for Inq Trudy Rubin Blog en-us Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:30:40 GMT More Iraq visa horror stories http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/trudy-rubin/136728526.html Even breast cancer may not get an Iraqi endangered because she helped us her promised visa. Kim Jong Il, mass murderer, do not R.I.P. http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/trudy-rubin/Kim-Jong-Il-mass-murderer-do-not-RIP.html The obits for North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il are filled with details about his weird personal habits and his country’s nukes, but the history books will reveal him as one of the great mass murderers of our times. Pakistan the loser in firing Amb. to DC Husain Haqqani http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/trudy-rubin/Who-gains-and-who-loses-in-Pakistans-memogate.html Once again Pakistan has undermined its own security interests – and that of its supposed American ally – by using a bizarre scandal to force the resignation of Pakistan’s talented ambassador to Washington, Husain Haqqani. In Imbaba, Egyptians say elections are confusing http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/trudy-rubin/133318939.html The first free Egyptian election season will get seriously underway only after the feast of Eid Al Adha on Nov. 6-8. Voting will begin on Nov. 28 and continue through February, in three phases. Islamist parties are favored to get a plurality Hardline Salafis on rise in Egypt's political season http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/trudy-rubin/133318374.html One of the most unsettling developments of Egypt’s Arab Spring has been the surge of activity by ultraconservative Salafist Muslims, who used to denounce conventional politics. Last chance for Syrian regime http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/trudy-rubin/133120028.html Cairo, Egypt. Even as it continues to kill protesters, Syria accepted an Arab League plan today that calls on Damascus to end the fighting, and start talking to the Syrian opposition. Egyptian spring has turned to glum autumn http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/trudy-rubin/132657091.html Nine months after the Tahrir Square revolution that over threw President Hosni Mubarak, the mood in Egypt is glum. The only Jewish restaurant in Tunis http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/trudy-rubin/132571102.html Jacob “Gilles” Lellouche runs the only Jewish restaurant in Tunis, named after his mother, “Mamie Lily.” Tunisia: between hope and cynicism http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/trudy-rubin/132568352.html Writing about Tunisia’s spectacular elections involves a tussle between hope and the cynicism that comes from having long covered the Middle East. At the American cemetery in Tunis http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/trudy-rubin/At-the-American-cemetery-in-Tunis.html