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1. "Michael Rubin," a painter in the abstract style, living currently in New York. http://www.askart.com/AskART/photos/BUT5141992/3825.jpg 2. "Michael Rubin," a writer, educator, and video literacy advocate. Rubin is author of a number of books, including "Defending the Galaxy: the complete handbook of videogaming" (1982), Nonlinear: a field guide to digital video and film editing, 4th edition (2001); The Little Digital Video Book (2002); iLife 05 Apple Training Series (2005); and the hardback nonfiction DROIDMAKER: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution (2005). http://www.droidmaker.com http://www.nonlinear.info Mr. Rubin was graduated from Brown University in 1985 with a degree in neuroscience, and joined Lucasfilm to support their development and release of nonlinear film editing (EditDroid) and digital audio (SoundDroid) workstations in Hollywood. He is an accomplished business strategist, graphic designer, photographer, videographer. Many of his personal videos have been used in Apple's video strategy and training materials. Mr. Rubin is also the co-founder and CEO of Petroglyph Ceramic Lounge, a chain of retail art studios in Northern California. Rubin was a finalist for Entrepreneur of the Year (1999) from the Silicon Valley Business Journal, and Petroglyph at that time was recognized by that organization as the 7th fastest growing privately owned company in the region. 3. "Michael Rubin" is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and editor of the ''Middle East Quarterly''. Between 2002 and 2004, Dr. 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. A native of Philadelphia, Dr. Rubin earned a Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 1999. His dissertation, ''The Making of Modern Iran, 1858-1909: Communications, Telegraph and Society'' won Yale's top John Addison Porter Prize. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including from the Council On Foreign Relations , Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs, and The Washington Institute, where he was a Soref fellow in 1999-2000. He has lectured in history at Yale University, Hebrew University, and at three different universities in northern Iraq. Dr. Rubin is co-author of ''Eternal Iran'' (Palgrave, 2005) and ''Into the Shadows: Radical Vigilantes in Khatami's Iran '' (2001), in addition to numerous scholarly and policy articles. He has published his opinion articles and analyses widely in such forums as the ''Washington Post'', ''New York Times'', ''Wall Street Journal'', ''The New Republic'', ''National Review'', and ''Commentary''. He has appeared on CNN, Fox, BBC, MSNBC, C-Span's Washington Journal, and ABC's Nightline. Dr. Rubin has traveled widely in Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Turkey, the Arab world, and Israel. |
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