Trudy Rubin, foreign affairs columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and a member of the Inquirer’s editorial board, will join us on Monday, March 7th, to discuss Turkey’s emergence as a powerhouse on the international stage. She will speak to the Council at St. John the Evangelist’s Kiney Hall, 625 111th St., at 3:45 and 7:30 pm.

Ms. Rubin has special expertise in the Middle East and travels abroad frequently. [In fact, at this writing on February 13th, she is en route to Cairo]. Before joining the Inquirer in 1983, she was Middle East correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, covering Israel and the Arab World, and lived in Jerusalem and Beirut.

A prolific writer, she was a staff writer for the Economist on American politics, spent a year in Moscow as an exchange journalist for the Moscow News, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary for her columns on Israel and Palestine. She is the author of “Willful Blindness: The Bush Administration and Iraq”. She was awarded the Edward Weintal award for International Reporting in 2008.

A B.A. graduate of Smith College, she received her Masters in Economics at the London School of Economics. In 2007 she was awarded the Smith College Medal for outstanding Alumnae.


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