Scholars for Peace in the Middle East is pleased to welcome Professor Barry Rubin to its Board of 
Directors. 


Professor Rubin is director of the Global Research for International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and 



 a professor at the Interdisciplinary University. The GLORIA Center is affiliated with the Lauder 

School of Government and Diplomacy of the Interdisciplinary Center. 

It has offices in Herziliya, Israel and Washington DC. While the GLORIA Center was founded in 2001, 



it builds on the work done on the MERIA project going back to 1985.

He is editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal 
and of Turkish Studies journal. He writes the Middle East column for the Jerusalem Post. His latest 
book is The Truth About Syria (Palgrave-MacMillan, April 2007) and The Future of the Middle East
 (Sharpe, in press). His recent edited works include Iraq After Saddam (Sharpe, in press),
 Global Survey of Islamism (Sharpe, in press), the three-volume collection Political Islam
 (Routledge), and an eight-volume introductory book series to the Middle East (Sharpe, 
 in press).

"I would like to see SPME: hold a broad annual conference on the Middle East; 
 support and promote good books on the region, including perhaps the establishment
 of an SPME book club; work to distribute good and accurate materials on the Middle
 East and Western relations with the region, " commented Rubin when joining the Board.

"Having Prof. Rubin's perspective and talents on our Board of Directors is an important
and impactual asset as SPME moves forward to engage, educate and empower our academic
colleagues to address issues of anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism in their curricula, their 
 disciplines and institutions." said Ed Beck, President of SPME.