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.
Email Trudy at trubin@phillynews.com
- Egypt moves against groups despite U.S. ire
- More Iraq visa horror stories
Nothing better illustrates America's sliding status in today's Arab world than Egypt's decision to try 16 Americans who work for pro-democracy groups there.
- More Iraq visa horror stories
Trudy Rubin: Americans have been slow to grasp that an Israeli attack may be coming.
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U.S. should be urging Iraqi's release
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Last week, Human Rights Watch put out a blunt assessment of what the United States has left behind after eight years in Iraq: "Despite U.S. government assurances that it helped create a stable democracy, the reality is that it left behind a budding police state."
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A year later in Egypt, the revolution continues
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Exactly one year ago, young Egyptians poured into Tahrir Square in a revolt whose outcome surprised them as much as the world.
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Mickey Mouse tweet key to Arab pluralism
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One way to judge where the Arab uprisings are headed, a year after they erupted, is to consider the case of Mickey Mouse with a beard.
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A sorry field on foreign policy
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Trudy Rubin: The GOP candidates are so incoherent on foreign policy they make George W. Bush look like a savant.
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America needs to have hotline with Iran
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Last week, the Obama administration warned Iran that it would cross a "red line" if it closed the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow opening at the mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of the world's daily oil trade flows.
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How to conduct Taliban peace talks
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Trudy Rubin: Here's the reality: Talks with the Taliban will not lead to an honorable exit.
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A look ahead at what could be the new year's biggest international stories
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The events of 2011 - featuring Arab upheavals that no one expected - should serve as a warning against New Year's predictions.
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Shame on U.S.: Iraqi allies betrayed
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Trudy Rubin: I'm ashamed to admit that the U.S. government has abandoned these people.
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How readers can help with donations in world trouble spots
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Readers often ask me how they can help the people I write about, whether it's Iraqis who are endangered because they helped Americans, or Afghan women, or Israelis and Palestinians working for peace.
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A linkage of faiths at YMCA in Jerusalem
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This was a bleak year for anyone who dreams of Middle East peace or Arab-Jewish coexistence. So, on Christmas Day, I'd like to write about an institution in Jerusalem that brings Christians, Jews, and Muslims together, and about its director, who has bridged divides that seem insurmountable.
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