IPA Events
The Middle East after Iraq and the US election
12th September, 2008
08:00am - 9:00am
Location: IPA offices, Level 2/410 Collins Street, Melbourne
In this roundtable breakfast Dr Rubin will discuss the current state of the Middle-East, terrorism in Iraq, the challenge of Iran and the impact of the US election.
This breakfast is complimentary, but it is essential to RSVP.
Speakers
Dr Michael Rubin
Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and Editor of the Middle East Quarterly
Dr Michael Rubin has previously served 16 months as an Iraq and Iran adviser in the Office of the US Secretary of Defence. During this time, he was a political adviser in the Coalition Provisional Authority [CPA] governance team in Iraq. While in Iraq, he was the only CPA official who lived outside the US secure area, and travelled extensively throughout the country maintaining contact with Iraqis of all political and religious persuasions.
At AEI, Rubin chaired the "Dissent and Reform in the Arab World" conference series. He also is lead drafter of the Bipartisan Policy Center's special report on Iran. In addition to his work at AEI, several times each month, as a senior lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School since 2007, Rubin travels to military bases across the United States and Europe to instruct senior U.S. Army and Marine officers deploying to Iraq and Kuwait on issues relating to regional state history and politics, Shiism, the theological basis of
extremism, and strategy.
Dr Rubin lived and worked in the Kurdish enclave in Northern Iraq for several months in 2000-2001, where he was a visiting lecturer at Kurdish universities. He has also lectured in Middle East politics at Yale University, from which he earned a Phd in History specialising in the Middle East and has been a Soref Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (1999 - 2000).
Dr Rubin is the author of the book, "Into the Shadows: Radical Vigilantes in Khatami's Iran" about the violent vigilante gangs used by the authorities in Iran to attack and intimidate reformers. He is also a prolific writer of articles for publications including "The New York Times", "The New Republic", "The Wall Street Journal", "The Jerusalem Post" and "The Los Angeles Times".
Contact
Morgan Willcox
Telephone 03 9600 4744
Email mwillcox@ipa.org.au
Website www.ipa.org.au