Elizabeth Rubin is a freelance reporter and regularly contributes to journals and newspapers including The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s and the New Republic. Elizabeth has a BA from Columbia University and a MPhil in Renaissance Literature from Oxford University. Since October 2001, she has reported extensively from Afghanistan on the overthrow of the Taliban, life and politics under President Hamid Karzai, the rise of the new Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and American counterinsurgency efforts. For the past decade she has worked as a foreign correspondent, writing from Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Russia, the Caucasus, the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans. She won the Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism in 2003 and is currently the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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In the Land of the Taliban

The Battle Within

The Cult of Rajavi

Elizabeth Rubin in Harper's Magazine