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to continue its groundbreaking research
Make your tax-deductible donation today!
to continue its groundbreaking research
Make your tax-deductible donation today!
Founded
by the late Professor Barry Rubin, the Rubin Center is one of the most
versatile and active Mid-East research centers in the world. Through its
groundbreaking frontline reporting and research, the center makes the
most up-to-date, accurate, often otherwise inaccessible information
available to policymakers, the broader public, and the media.
UPDATE: Some of the projects your tax-deductible donations have supported so far in 2016…
Frontline reporting
Primary research
Rubin Fellow Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
has continued to build up his unique archives of over 500 Islamic State
documents, creating a vital public resource on the inner workings of
the organization (financial accounts, personnel lists, and more). These
archives and collections have included many previously unseen documents
and texts leaked by Jawad, including important works like Principles in the Administration of the Islamic State
(a bureaucratic position paper outline of the state project) and a
manual guiding commanders in planning and executing military missions.
Britain’s The Guardian has called Jawad’s archive “the most thorough log of Isis documents available to the public.”
Jawad also wrote a widely publicized paper for West Point’s CTC Sentinel assessing
the Islamic State’s strengths and weaknesses based partly on internal
documents. While with the Rubin Center, Jawad has profiled numerous
militias in Syria, including native Syrian Hizballah and the integration
of Shi’i militias into the Syrian state apparatus.
Rubin
Center Director Dr. Jonathan Spyer recently authored a paper on
Israel’s strategic doctrine for the Friends of Israel group, and a paper on Iranian regional strategy for the Henry Jackson Society think tank, for which he interviewed senior serving Israeli officials.
We are also happy to welcome new Rubin Center Associate Neri Zilber,
a journalist and researcher on Middle East politics and culture and an
adjunct fellow of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Media and Consultancy
As
specialists on the ground throughout the Middle East, the Rubin Center
frequently consults for governments, including the United States, UK,
China, Israel, India, Canada, and the Czech Republic, news media, and
academic research. Rubin researchers have been sought out by the White
House, the British Parliament, and other Western governments, as well as
media bodies and human rights NGOs.
In
2016 alone, Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi has been quoted in a wide range of
media outlets, academic journals, and government briefings—including in a U.S. House of Representatives memo on investigating financing for terrorism, and by the United Nations on the subject of crimes against the Yazidis in Syria.
Jonathan
Spyer has recently visited Beijing, Prague, and Washington,
D.C.—addressing meetings at Capitol Hill. He will soon visit New Delhi
and Copenhagen as part of the center’s ongoing ties with a number of
foreign embassies.
Publications
Covering
the latest developments in the region from a wide variety of
viewpoints, including U.S. policy, radical movements, and minorities,
the Rubin Center’s quarterly journal MERIA has a circulation of over 25,000. Get your free email subscription today!
In
a crucial geographical and political location, Turkey’s importance is
growing rapidly throughout Europe, the Middle East, and the Caucasus.
With an upsurge in interest in its history, politics, and foreign
policy, Turkish Studies quarterly—listed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)—offers scholarly discussion on these topics and more.
Books
The Rubin Center has produced numerous books on subjects related to the modern Middle East. These include:
- Nazis, Islamists and the Making of the Modern Middle East—about the political alliance forged among Third Reich leaders, Arab nationalists, and Muslim religious authorities during the 1930s and 1940s
- The Transforming Fire: The Rise of the Israel-Islamist Conflict—dealing with the emergence of Islamist movements as Israel’s main adversaries and Israel’s response to this
- The Military History of the Modern Middle East—covers the military history of the past hundred years, including both World Wars, the Turkish-Greek conflicts, Arab nationalism, the Arab-Israeli conflicts, and the post-2003 fighting in Iraq
- Free Books Project—we continue to offer 13 of Barry Rubin’s books online at no cost, including books covering the Israel-Palestinian conflict, Syria, U.S. policy, Jewish assimilation, and more.
With
all this going on and much more, the Rubin Center needs your support
more urgently than ever. Donations are tax-deductible within the U.S.
(including via PayPal), Israel, and the UK.
