Trudy Rubin

Columnist, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Trudy Rubin is the foreign affairs columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and a member of paper editorial board. Her column, “Worldview” appears twice weekly in The Inquirer and runs regularly in many other newspapers around the United States. In 2001, Ms. Rubin was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary for her columns on Israel and the Palestinians. In 2008, she was awarded the Edward Weintal award for International Reporting. She is the author of "Willful Blindness: The Bush Administration and Iraq," Rubin tells the story of how the administration misconceived the Iraq war and mishandled the postwar.  Trudy was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2001 for her keenly analytical columns on the Middle East. 

Ms. Rubin has special expertise on the Middle East, Russia and Eastern Europe and travels abroad frequently. In 2003-08 she made nine trips to Iraq and visited Pakistan Iran, Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, China and South Korea. In recent years she has visited India, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria, Central Asia, Russia and Georgia. Before coming to The Inquirer in December 1983, she was Middle East correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, covering Israel and the Arab world, and lived in Jerusalem and Beirut.

She is a graduate of Smith Colleges and The London School Economics and each time I read her column I learn a great deal. She is a very informative speaker, and is internationally recognized for her analysis of Middle East events.