Fellows & Editors
Trudy Rubin
- Trip:
- China 2010
- Affiliation:
- The Philadelphia Inquirer
- Country:
- China
- Year:
- 2010
Trudy Rubin is the foreign affairs columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and a member of The Inquirer’s editorial board. Her column appears twice weekly in The Inquirer and runs regularly in many other newspapers around the United States. Rubin has special expertise on the Middle East, Russia, and South Asia and is a frequent guest on NPR and PBS news shows. She is the author of “Willful Blindness: The Bush Administration and Iraq.” 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. Earlier, she was a national correspondent for The Monitor, covering election campaigns and national political and social issues. 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 as a radio correspondent. In 1993, Rubin was a Jefferson Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu. In 1990 she was invited as an exchange journalist to the Moscow News in Moscow. She spent 1975-76 as a fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University as a participant in the program for senior diplomats started by Henry Kissinger. In 1974-75, she was an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow in Cairo and Beirut. She holds a B.A. from Smith College and an Msc. (Econ) from The London School of Economics.
Rubin was awarded a prior fellowship with IRP, reporting from Brazil in 2001.
Stories
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Worldview: A chance to talk to Chinese
SHANGHAI, China - The mammoth World Expo 2010, which just opened here, offers a terrific opportunity for U.S. public diplomacy - reaching out to millions of Chinese via our exhibition. Yet the...
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Worldview: NGOs a paradox in today’s China
KUNMING, China - Late last year, HIV-AIDS activist Thomas Cai was suddenly summoned to appear the next day at a mysterious meeting in Beijing. Cai is the founder and director of the...
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Worldview: Viewing ‘the other China,’ beyond the economic boom
BEIJING - With all the media focus on "Rising China," another side of China gets far less attention. Call it "the other China," the bulk of the country's population that hasn't fully...
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Worldview: A green movement grows in rural China
Gao Hai, a former Shanghai disc jockey who returned to Anlong village to grow - and cook - organic produce. (photo: Trudy Rubin) ANLONG, China - This small village on the Zouma...
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Rio is Town of Two Worlds
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - From the top of Corcovado Mountain, beneath the 10-story statue of Christ the Redeemer, you can see the endless stretch of Rio's fabulous bays and beaches. But...
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Pragmatism Helps Slow AIDS
Instead of debating for three days in New York over what to do with the money in an international AIDS fund, this week's special United Nations assembly on AIDS should have...
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Brazil Battles AIDS and U.S. Resistance
This week Brazilian Health Minister Jose Serra will be received as a hero at a special United Nations session on AIDS. The United States will appear as the goat. Serra and his...
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