| Title | Publication | Date |
| Kurdish leaders are drunk with power | Daily Star (Beirut) | July 1, 2009 |
| The Troop Drawdown Could Be Costly for Iraq | Wall Street Journal | June 30, 2009 |
| Iran, technology, and revolution | Middle East Strategy at Harvard | June 25, 2009 |
| Silence Is Not Neutrality | National Review Online | June 23, 2009 |
| Protests aren't enough to topple the Islamic Republic | Los Angeles Times | June 19, 2009 |
| Don't meddle, but help create a template for Iranians to act | Los Angeles Times | June 18, 2009 |
| The Obama Effect? | New York Daily News | June 14, 2009 |
| Sixty Miles from the Capital | Weekly Standard | May 11, 2009 |
| Just the beginning | Bitterlemons International | April 30, 2009 |
| A Target of Convenience | National Review Online | April 21, 2009 |
| Kurdistan's Troubled Democracy | Washington Post | April 18, 2009 |
| Leaders' mortality may sway Iraq's health | Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst | April 17, 2009 |
| What Iran Really Thinks About Talks | Wall Street Journal | April 13, 2009 |
| Khatami is just Ahmadinejad with a silver tongue | The Australian | March 25, 2009 |
| Obama Shouldn't Sacrifice Allies To Please Russia | Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty | March 4, 2009 |
| An Opening to Iran? | Weekly Standard | February 16, 2009 |
| Diplomacy By Itself Won't Work With Iran | Investor's Business Daily | February 13, 2009 |
| Diplomacy Cannot Quell Gaza Violence | Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty | January 5, 2009 |
| Tehran Is The Obstacle To U.S.-Iran Talks | Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty | November 25, 2008 |
| Syria Can't Be Flipped | Forbes.com | November 12, 2008 |
| Can a Nuclear Iran Be Contained or Deterred? | Middle Eastern Outlook | November 5, 2008 |
| The U.S. Should Not Open an Interests Section in Tehran | CFR Forum | November 4, 2008 |
| Iran's Economy Runs Out Of Steam | Forbes.com | October 17, 2008 |
| Obama or McCain, Iran stance won't change | The Australian | October 3, 2008 |
| Boxed In: Containing a Nuclear Iran | Jane's Intelligence Review | October 2008 |
| Getting Religion Wrong | Blind Spot: When Journalists Don't Get Religion | October 2008 |
| Iran's Revolutionary Guards - A Rogue Outfit? | Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2008 |
| Biden's Blink on Iran | Washington Post | August 26, 2008 |
| . . . And Foreign Policy Moves Front and Center | Richmond Times-Dispatch | August 12, 2008 |
| Erdogan, Ergenekon, and the Struggle for Turkey | Mideast Monitor | August 8, 2008 |
| Bush's Disastrous Flip Flop | Bitterlemons International | August 7, 2008 |
| Obama in Berlin | Washington Post | July 24, 2008 |
| Now Bush Is Appeasing Iran | Wall Street Journal | July 21, 2008 |
| Turkey: Erdogan, the AKP, and Secularism | Euro-Atlantic Quarterly | July 2008 |
| Iran's Faltering Economy | Euro-Atlantic Quarterly | July 2008 |
| The Case Against Turkey's Ruling Party | The American | June 20, 2008 |
| Return of the Purple Fingers | Washington Post | June 9, 2008 |
| Turkey's Putin Deserves to Go | Wall Street Journal | June 6, 2008 |
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Books Reviewed by Michael Rubin |
| Review of: Baghdad at Sunrise | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2009 |
| Review of: British Policy in Mesopotamia, 1903-1914 | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2009 |
| Review of: Circle in the Sand | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2009 |
| Review of: Nights in the Pink Motel | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2009 |
| Review of: Arab Politics, Palestinian Nationalism, and the Six Day War | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2009 |
| Review of: Losing the Golden Hour | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2009 |
| Review of: The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2009 |
| Review of: Swimming Up the Tigris | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2009 |
| Review of: War and Decision | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2009 |
| Review of: The Jews of Libya | Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2008 |
| Review of: A Path Out of the Desert | New York Sun | July 22, 2008 |
| Review of: Between Foreigners and Shi‘is | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2008 |
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