Visiting Fellow Trudy Rubin

Trudy Rubin is the Worldview columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Her column appears in many other US newspapers. Before joining the Inquirer in 1983, she was Middle East correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. Previously, she was a national correspondent for the Monitor and a staff writer for the Economist. Rubin has received numerous prizes throughout her career, including the 2019 Overseas Press Club's Award for Best Commentary in International Affairs; the 2010 Arthur Ross Award for distinguished analysis of foreign affairs from the American Academy of Diplomacy; and the 2008 Edward Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting. In 2001 and 2017, she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. She is the author of Willful Blindness: The Bush Administration and Iraq. Rubin has special expertise on the Middle East, Russia, and eastern and central Europe. In 2022, she made two lengthy trips to Ukraine to report on the conflict there, and in recent years has written from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, Israel and the West Bank. She is a graduate of Smith College and the London School of Economics and Political Science.