Dr. Michael Rubin is a Middle Eastern historian based in Washington, DC, USA. Rubin is director of policy analysis at the Middle East Forum and the editor of its daily Middle East Forum Observer. For 22 years, he was a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and he previously served as a senior lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School, during which time he spent more than a year at sea onboard U.S. aircraft carriers, amphibious assault vessels, destroyers, and cruisers teaching courses related U.S. national security in the Middle East and Africa. He also regularly taught courses regarding terrorism for U.S. Navy SEALS and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations. He earlier worked as a lecturer in Iranian history at Yale University; Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC; and at three different universities in northern Iraq.
A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Rubin received a B.S. degree in biology from Yale University in 1994, and a Ph.D. in history from the same institution in 1999. He contributed affidavits to or served as an expert witness in multiple court cases involving terror sponsors, testified in the U.S. Congress more than two dozen times, and is the author of six books, several dozen book chapters, and is the author of more than three thousand published opinion essays and articles.
