Over the past four years Rubin has traveled regularly to Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Israel and the West Bank. While in Iraq, Rubin was in direct communications with Iraqi government officials, clerics and Iraqi citizens and wrote extensively, providing numerous commentaries on Iraqi politics and issues surrounding the U.S. led war, both pre and post Saddam Hussein. Rubin's most recent book entitled, "Willful Blindness: The Bush Administration and Iraq," a compilation of her work during this time, provides an insightful perspective of the U.S. government's execution of the war, the reality of its' impact, and the prognosis for achieving peace.

During her tenure, Rubin has also traveled to Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria, Central Asia, and Russia, covering a range of social and political issues. In 2001, Ms. Rubin was named as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for her analytical commentary on the Middle-East.

Prior to 1983, Ms. Rubin lived in Jerusalem and Beirut, serving as the Middle East correspondent for the Christian Scientist Monitor. Rubin also held the position of staff writer at the Economist of London, where she was charged with covering political issues in the U.S. She also served as a radio correspondent in Czechoslovakia.

Rubin was a Jefferson Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu in 1993, and in 1990 was an invited exchange journalist to the Moscow News in Moscow. From 1975 to 1976 Ms. Rubin was a fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and participant in the program for senior diplomats, which was started by Henry Kissinger. Ms. Rubin is a graduate of Smith College and the London School of Economics.