Members’ Briefing

Pakistan and Afghanistan: A Trip Report

Trudy Rubin

May 21, 2009 / Philadelphia

Trudy Rubin’s “Worldview” column in the Philadelphia Inquirer runs on Wednesdays and Sundays. In the past five years she has visited Iraq nine times and has also written from Iran, Pakistan, Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, China and South Korea. She is the author of Willful Blindness: the Bush Administration and Iraq, a book of her columns from 2002-2004. In 2001 she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary and in 2008 she was awarded the Edward Weintal prize for international reporting.

This presentation describes her most recent trip, to Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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