Inquirer Foreign Affairs Columnist Trudy Rubin
to Lecture on the Future of U.S. in Iraq

Philadelphia Inquirer foreign-affairs columnist Trudy Rubin, author of Willfull Blindness: The Bush Administration and Iraq, will give a lecture titled "Iraq: Where We Are, Where We're Headed" at Dalton Hall, Room 300, on Wednesday, Nov. 14, at 8 p.m.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Rubin's column appears twice weekly in The Inquirer and runs regularly in many other newspapers around the United States. In 2001, she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary for her columns on Israel and the Palestinians. 

Rubin has 30 years of experience covering the Middle East, including six years in Jerusalem and Beirut, and coverage of Iraq before and after the Gulf War. Her book is made up of a collection of her columns from July 2002 to June 2004, with new material added, and draws on her four lengthy trips to Iraq since the fall of Baghdad and her close contacts with members of the Iraqi government, Iraqi clerics and many ordinary Iraqis. Rubin is one of the few foreign-policy commentators who know this story from both the Iraqi and American angle.

Before coming to The Inquirer in December 1983, Rubin was Middle East correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, covering Israel and the Arab world, and lived in Jerusalem and Beirut. Prior to that, she was a staff writer on American politics for The Economist of London. During the Prague Spring of 1968, she worked in Prague, Czechoslovakia, as a radio correspondent.  She is also a member of The Inquirer's editorial board.

Rubin's lecture, sponsored by Bryn Mawr College's Center for International Studies, is the second annual Janee Armstrong Lecture in International Relations.

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