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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.
Email Trudy at trubin@phillynews.com
- The Muslim Brotherhood’s final rally
CAIRO — In Tahrir Square, the only reminders of last year’s Arab Spring are a handful of tattered tents and the hawkers who sell leftover trinkets from the revolution. Many secular Egyptians who once demanded democracy now fear that they ousted a secular autocracy only to see it replaced with an Islamic one — ushered in by the ballot. Yet the liberals, leftists, and moderate Muslims who organized the revolt failed to do the one thing that would block an Islamist victory — unite around a single candidate for the presidency in the first round of elections on Wednesday and Thursday.
- Military chief sees 'great leader' from Egyptian elections
- In Egypt's vote, revolutionaries lack a candidate
- Egypt military ruler: Presidential vote to be free
- The Muslim Brotherhood’s final rally
Trudy Rubin: Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh wants to show that an Islamist president can be tolerant and inclusive.
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Whither political Islam?
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The presidential candidates confronted each other in front of the TV cameras for four hours on Thursday, with only two breaks of about 30 minutes. They argued about security, the economy, education — and the role of sharia law. The location was Cairo. The more secular candidate, former diplomat Amr Moussa, accused his opponent of being an Islamist hard-liner in moderate’s clothing. The Islamist, former Muslim Brotherhood leader Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, accused Moussa of complicity in the former Hosni Mubarak regime.
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Europe's anger-filled elections are clues for U.S.
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In this week's Greek elections, the far-right, ultranationalist Golden Dawn party, whose members perform Nazi salutes at rallies, got 7 percent of the vote and entered Parliament for the first time. Its leader told journalists to stand upon his arrival at a news conference and ejected those who did not.
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Out of touch about Afghanistan
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President Obama had every right to celebrate the first anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death with U.S. troops in Kabul. No one can doubt the magnitude of that achievement — under his command. But everything else about Obama’s Afghan trip had a surreal feel, including his speech to the American public. After 11 years of war, the president had to slip in and out of the country under cover of darkness. Even more disturbing was how little resemblance the speech had to the facts on the ground.
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A mess in China that could yet end well
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No screenwriter could have dreamed up the saga of the blind Chinese human-rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng, a story so dramatic that it threatens to upend U.S.-Chinese relations - but offers China's leaders a unique chance to promote legal reforms.
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Shakespeare in Kabul
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Last week I read a book called Shakespeare in Kabul that probably upends everything you thought you knew about Afghanistan. It’s an important book — and it’s being published just after U.S. officials pledged to support Afghanistan for a decade beyond the exit of U.S. troops at the end of 2014.
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U.S. must do more to help Iraqis who helped us
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Long after the last U.S. soldier left Iraq, thousands of Iraqis who worked for our military and civilians are still living in dangerous limbo, waiting for promised U.S. visas that haven’t arrived. Radical Shiite militias are threatening to kill these Iraqis because they helped Americans.
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Guarded optimism on Iran
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Worldview: Here's five reasons the nuclear talks between Iran and the West might stand a chance.
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U.N. plan offers brief window of opportunity in Syria
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The last thing the United States needs at the moment is to get involved in another Mideast war. So some may hope a shaky truce in Syria, brokered last week by former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, can halt the regime’s vicious slaughter of civilians. Some may even hope the Annan plan will defuse a Syrian conflict that could drag in NATO forces.
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Egypt Brotherhood's mission
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Trudy Rubin: Islam and democracy can coexist, a Muslim Brotherhood delegation from Egypt says.
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U.S. exit in Afghanistan depends on Pakistan
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Is there any way that the United States can engineer a decent exit from Afghanistan that leaves behind a stable country? The answer depends on Pakistan.
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