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  Michael Rubin - SourceWatch
Rubin was political adviser for the Coalition Provisional Authority (Baghdad), 2003-2004, following two years (2002-2004) as staff assistant on Iran and Iraq in the Office of Special Plans in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Rubin is author with Patrick Clawson of "Eternal Iran: Continuity and Chaos" (Palgrave, 2005) and of the "Washington Institute Policy Paper Into the Shadows: Radical Vigilantes in Khatami's Iran" (2001), in addition to numerous scholarly and policy articles.
Michael Rubin, "Democracy on the Wing," Washington Post, January 26, 2005: "The writer, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is editor of the Middle East Quarterly."
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Michael_Rubin   (1417 words)

  
 Friedland Art :: Michael Rubin Media Articles
Rubin is aware of history and thinks like an art historian, visiting art exhibitions over and over to see "how good art can be" and to reassure himself that "art is possible." Deeply moved by great art, he once cried before Rembrandt's Flora.
Michael Rubin's training in architecture provides his work with an armature that acts as a governing foundation for thick, raking layers of paint.
For Rubin, the meaning of his art and life are intrinsically involved - a commingling that evokes Goethe's words, "he only earns his freedom who creates each day anew." Unlike Faust, Michael Rubin has not wagered his soul in the process - though he does stake his life on his art.
www.friedlandart.com /michaelrubinmedia.html   (2545 words)

  
 Michael Rubin
Michael Rubin is a specialist on Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy[?].
Rubin assists David Wurmser[?] and Richard Perle at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
Rubin is also a member of the Middle East Forum[?].
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mi/Michael_Rubin.html   (41 words)

  
 State: Michael Rubin on Life in Iraq - 8-20-02
Michael Rubin is currently a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington.
Rubin explained that, as the regime continues to expel the local population from areas like Kirkuk, he would see five to six new families arriving in the northern cities each day.
Rubin said he admires the dedication of the colleagues and students he encountered, but he also spoke of the challenges in education confronting many in the Middle East.
www.iraqwatch.org /government/US/State/state-rubin-082002.htm   (1076 words)

  
 Right Web | Individual Profile | Michael Rubin
Michael Rubin is one of the youngest neoconservative figures to gain prominence within the George W. Bush administration.
Rubin, an AEI scholar, was involved in several meetings and conferences officiated by Douglas Feith and Harold Rhode at AEI as part of the Bush transition team.
Rubin was assigned to the Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans, which was fold into the Northern Gulf Affairs Office after the unit was implicated in cooking intelligence information to justify the Iraq war and occupation.
rightweb.irc-online.org /ind/rubin/rubin.php   (714 words)

  
 Michael Rubin Speaks on Sudan and Slave Redemption
Michael Rubin, adjunct scholar at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a powerful Washington think tank with close ties to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), spoke on the topic “Sudan and the Controversy Over Slave Redemption” at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC on Dec. 6.
Rubin later stated that slaves were divided into groups according to their home counties and moved to fields just outside their home villages.
Rubin said slave redemption was a controversial issue between those in the activist community, like Christian Solidarity International, that work with rebel groups and local authorities to free slaves, and large non-governmental organizations like UNICEF, that prefer to work through the government.
www.wrmea.com /archives/march2002/0203093b.html   (1021 words)

  
 Michael Rubin – Part Deux by Karen Kwiatkowski
While inaccurate and naïve, the statement has all the charm of a wide-eyed 16-year-old seeking to explain the world as he sees it, conjuring up the fantastical idea that one may use the words "political" and "utopia" in the same sentence and still be of this world.
To be fair, Michael is partially correct, in the sense that the US protected and sponsored Kurdish government in Iraq was still decentralized and had not yet become very confiscatory.
Rubin rather nervously refused appear with me. Since the game would be about the hard facts of our respective words and actions, he ran off the field.
www.lewrockwell.com /kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski76.html   (1582 words)

  
 Center News - 5/19/05 - The Michael B. Rubin Endowment will raise funds for research at Premier Chefs Dinner
Rubin said that at the time, he was encouraged to hear that eight of the nine prior transplant recipients were still alive.
For Rubin the year 2005 is a major milestone, because in the Jewish tradition the word for 18, "chai," means "life" and is considered lucky.
Rubin cites the new Early Detection and Intervention Initiative and continued groundbreaking research on bone-marrow and stem-cell transplantation as examples of the Center's leadership.
www.fhcrc.org /about/pubs/center_news/2005/may19/gart2.html   (748 words)

  
 Author Stuff
Rubin assisted Academy Award-winning editor Gabriella Cristiani in her nonlinear post-production of Bernardo Bertolucci's The Sheltering Sky (1990) and was a principal nonlinear editor on the Paul McCartney concert film Get Back (1991), both on the CMX 6000.
Rubin has lectured internationally on nonlinear film editing: as a guest of the EFFECTS conference in Hamburg, Germany; at the International Television Symposium in Montreux, Switzerland; for the Directors Guild in Hollywood, California.
Rubin was one of the first individuals to become a professional editor (for features and television) with no prior experience in video or film.
www.nonlinear4.com /mike   (423 words)

  
 Michael Rubin (biographical details)
By 2004, Michael Rubin, a former member of the Pentagon's policy planning staff who dealt with Iran policy, was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
Rubin is one of the youngest neoconservative figures to gain prominence within the George W. Bush administration.
Rubin was involved in several meetings and conferences officiated by Douglas Feith and Harold Rhode at AEI as part of the Bush transition team.
student.cs.ucc.ie /cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/authors.php?auid=3696   (297 words)

  
 BW e.biz--11/15/00--Movers & Shakers: Can Michael Rubin Take Global Sports across the Goal Line?
So far, Rubin has been able to crank up sales without investing much in marketing himself: Global Sports was able to cut sales-and-marketing expenses from $9.5 million in the second quarter to $8.6 million in the third quarter, even as revenues increased 16% sequentially.
Rubin founded his first real business after returning from summer ski camp in Oregon when he was 12.
Rubin claims he was born with the entrepreneurial bug.
www.businessweek.com /ebiz/0011/em1115.htm   (1536 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Into the Shadows: Books: Michael Rubin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In this Washington Institute for Near East Policy book, historian Michael Rubin presents an incisive and comprehensive survey of Iran's vigilantes, or "pressure groups," along with an exploration of the deep roots these groups have in modern Iranian history.
Drawing on both a wide array of Persian language sources and his own research conducted in Iran, Dr. Rubin concludes that--despite the inevitability of political change suggested by demographic and economic realities in the Khatami era--the prospects for real reform in Iran within the existing system of rule are weakened by vigilante activism.
Michael Rubin is currently a visiting professor of Iranian history at the University of Sulaymani in northern Iraq and a 2000-2001 Fellow of the Carnegie Council on Ethics in International Affairs.
www.amazon.ca /Into-Shadows-Michael-Rubin/dp/0944029450   (440 words)

  
 Michael Rubin (historian) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michael Rubin is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and editor of the Middle East Quarterly (a publication of the Middle East Forum).
Between 2002 and 2004, Rubin worked as a country director for Iran and Iraq in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, from which he was seconded to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.
Rubin's biography – from the American Enterprise Institute.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Rubin   (310 words)

  
 The Lincoln Group Propaganda Advisors: Michael Rubin Dodges Affiliation, Michael Ledeen Revealed
According to Rubin, he took exception to suggestions that he did not disclose that the "Lincoln Group [3]" was compensating him when he told reporters he was not surprised that the military was paying to place stories in Iraqi newspapers.
Rubin and his associates like to portray the Army’s "propaganda [6]" as pro-US, suggesting that anyone that disapproves is anti-US.
Documents show that Rubin and Ledeen were represented as LG advisors, both work for "American Enterprise Institute (AEI) [7]", both are paid contributors to National Review, both claim expertise on Iraq and Iran, but neither admits working with, or for Lincoln Group.
www.prwatch.org /node/4356/print   (940 words)

  
 Right Web | Profile | Michael Rubin
Rubin lists his AEI research areas as “d omestic politics in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey; Kurdish society; and Arab democracy,” and he comments frequently on these issues.
Rubin's reputation as a scholar took a hit in early 2006 when the New York Times revealed that he had reviewed propaganda articles that had been produced for distribution to the media by the PR firm Lincoln Group, which had been hired by the Pentagon.
Rubin serves as editor of Middle East Quarterly, which is co-published by the Middle East Forum and the U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon.
rightweb.irc-online.org /profile/1345   (1413 words)

  
 ABNRD Attorneys - Michael Rubin
Michael Rubin is a graduate of Brandeis University and the Georgetown University Law Center, where he was an Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal.
Rubin was named as a member of the "Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America" by Lawdragon Magazine in April 2006, and as a member of the "Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiffs' Lawyers in America" in December 2006.
Rubin regularly lectures on developments in California and federal employment law and other topics.
www.altshulerberzon.com /attorneys_mrubin.htm   (202 words)

  
 droidMAKER: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution
Michael Rubin is an educator, author, filmmaker and entrepreneur.
Since then, Rubin has lectured internationally, from Montreux to Beijing, and has published a number of texts on editing for professionals as well as consumers, including Nonlinear (presently in its 4th edition).
Between 1999 and 2004 Rubin wrote four books on digital video, designed an online curriculum for Columbia University and the American Film Institute, and on occasion consulted for Sony and Apple regarding video literacy.
www.droidmaker.com /author.html   (190 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Troubled Transition -- April 19, 2004
Michael Rubin, a former staff assistant in the office of the secretary of defense from 2002 to 2004, including a stint advising the coalition authority in Iraq.
MICHAEL RUBIN: I get the sense that the administration is favoring shore term expediency over the long-term good of Iraq in this particular case.
MICHAEL RUBIN: Well, when you look back on Iraqi history, there's a history of constitutions and laws which haven't been worth the paper they've been written on and the important function of U.S. troops is not only security but guaranteeing rule of law.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june04/transition_04-19.html   (2051 words)

  
 Arnold & Porter LLP - Attorneys - Michael Rubin
Michael Rubin is a member of Arnold and Porter's general litigation group.
Rubin also counsels major corporations on general litigation risk, including with respect to product liability, antitrust and employment litigation.
Rubin is strongly committed to providing pro bono legal services.
www.arnoldporter.com /attorneys.cfm?attorney_id=38661   (140 words)

  
 Turkish Weekly Opinion - An Open Letter to Mr. Michael Rubin
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan, according to Rubin, was using “the rhetoric of democracy to advance distinctly undemocratic agendas” while American diplomats were interfering to dismiss these concerns and downplay the Islamist threat.
Rubin’s piece, let me say that I am not a supporter of either Prime Minister Erdoğan or his party.
I do not think that his government is doing a good job with running the country (although they have been much more successful than the chronically inept coalition governments of the 1990s and early 2000s).
www.turkishweekly.net /comments.php?id=2354   (2559 words)

  
 Gamasutra - Interview - "The Art Of LucasArts - Michael Rubin On Droidmaker"
Gamasutra sat down with Rubin to discuss both his own history (as the writer of fascinating early 'gaming lifestyle' book Defending The Galaxy), and his own impression of LucasArts' evolution, capped by a PDF extract from Droidmaker discussing the genesis of LucasArts.
Michael Rubin: I was a senior in high school when video game fever first hit, around 1980.
In addition to speaking to Gamasutra, Rubin has kindly allowed us to host a PDF excerpt comprising Chapter 18 of Droidmaker, 'A Hole In The Desert', chronicling the fascinating rise and supremacy of Atari, and the deal with Lucasfilm that created the Games Group.
www.gamasutra.com /features/20051221/carless_01.shtml   (1715 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Michael Rubin": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
As Iraq scholar Michael Rubin notes, they included groups called Hamas, Tawhid, and the Second Soran Unit, among others.' On September 1, 2001, the Second...
Michael Rubin -- Get the latest gossip about your favorite celebrity at Moviefone.
Michael Rubin - MD Report -- Access critical doctor performance information such as certifications and disciplinary actions.
www.amazon.com /phrase/Michael-Rubin   (601 words)

  
 Digital Video: An Introduction with Michael Rubin
Beginning with Michael Rubin's philosophy of "holistic video" (in which one person performs all the production tasks), the e-seminar offers how-to guidance in using digital video cameras and equipment, organizing material, and adding professional touches like music and titles.
Michael Rubin began his editing career at Lucasfilm, where he was instrumental in the development of training for the EditDroid and in introducing the Hollywood market to nonlinear editing for film.
Rubin has been a teacher to hundreds of professional film editors.
www.fathom.com /media/images/channels/course/4701042/default.htm   (742 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Apple Training Series: iLife 04: Books: Michael Rubin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The full iLife program, Michael advises us, takes an additional 4.3 GB if it is not already on your computer.
If good communication is a necessity or a hobby or if you simply want to know how to get more personal enjoyment from the music and visual capabilities of the Macintosh take a good look at this very well-written book.
Rubin, and everyone else involved in this book's production should be very pleased with the result.
www.amazon.ca /Apple-Training-iLife-Michael-Rubin/dp/0321256069   (2190 words)

  
 Michael Rubin
Michael Rubin, a former Coalition Provisional Authority political adviser, is now a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
Behind Moqtada Al Sadr's uprising is a powerful force that has been rallying Shia against the United States for more than a year now: Iran.
Michael Rubin on the only way to fight Saddam.
www.tnr.com /showBio.mhtml?pid=66   (87 words)

  
 Michael Rubin - Scientology Service Completions
TAS : Scientology Statistics : Individual Completions : M : Michael Rubin
The older a list, the more likely that a person listed on it is no longer involved in Scientology.
Note: The dates listed above are the approximate publication dates of the magazines, which may be weeks or months later than the actual date the service was completed.
www.truthaboutscientology.com /stats/by-name/m/michael-rubin.html   (290 words)

  
 'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for Jan. 12th - Hardball with Chris Matthews - MSNBC.com
RUBIN:  To some extent it is, but there‘s different motives here, there‘s motives which are voiced to the outside world and then there‘s motives on the inside.
RUBIN:  No, Iran is extremely cosmopolitan.  The Iranian people want nothing more than to be embraced by the outside world.  When you talk to Iran...
RUBIN:  This is the difference between the regime and the people.  When I was in Iran, I actually used to go to synagogue in Tehran and in Isfahan.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/10836171   (5884 words)

  
 Triad Publishes DROIDMAKER Book By Michael Rubin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
And Michael Rubin, author of DROIDMAKER: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution (Triad Publishing, hardcover, 527 pp.) was there among the dozens of experts in computer technology, music, film and
In the exciting and page-turning style of a born evangelist, Rubin introduces the cast of characters who play parts large and small in this world-changing tale — from Francis Ford Coppola to Steve Jobs, The Grateful Dead to Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick to Walt Disney, The Doors to Michael Crichton.
Michael Rubin is an educator, writer and entrepreneur.
desktops.consumerelectronicsnet.com /articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=34898   (1169 words)

  
 Attorney Michael Rubin, Mound, Cotton, Wollan and Greengrass, New York, New York
Attorney Michael Rubin, Mound, Cotton, Wollan and Greengrass, New York, New York
Michael Rubin is a graduate of Seton Hall University School of Law and the University of Delaware.
His practice includes insurance defense, premises liability, general negligence, and construction litigation in New York and New Jersey.
www.moundcotton.com /Bio/MichaelRubin.asp   (82 words)

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