Elizabeth Rubin is an American journalist. She is a contributing writer for ''

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''. She has traveled through and written about Afghanistan, Russia, Chechnya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Uganda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and the former Yugoslavia. Her stories have appeared in ''

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'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Vogue'' and ''

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''. She lives in

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Personal life

The daughter of publisher Harvey Rubin and his wife Judith, Rubin was raised in

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and earned a B.A. at

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and an M.Phil. at

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. She is the sister of former diplomat and journalist and executive editor at Bloomberg News,

James Rubin James Phillip Rubin (born March 28, 1960) is an American former diplomat and journalist who served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, assistant secretary of state for public affairs in the Clinton Administration, Clinton ad ...

who served under President

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and Chief Spokesman for the

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Career

Rubin started her career reviewing theater at the ''Vineyard Gazette'' on Martha's Vineyard, before moving to ''The Forward'' as deputy cultural editor. In 1994 she went to Sarajevo for a six-week stint which lasted nearly two years. Her reportage in ''Harper's'' about private armies, diamond wars, and state collapse in Sierra Leone was a National Magazine Award finalist and earned an Overseas Press Club citation for excellence. After 9/11, she covered the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for ''The New Republic'' and wrote about Russians, Chechens, Saudis, Iraqis, Iranians, and Americans abroad for ''The New York Times Magazine'', where she is a contributing writer.

Awards

Rubin is a 2004-2005 Nieman Fellow. At ''The New Yorker'', she won the

Livingston Award The Livingston Awards at the University of Michigan are American journalism awards issued to media professionals under the age of 35 for local, national, and international reporting. They are the largest, all-media, general reporting prizes in Amer ...

for International Reporting for her story about a Ugandan rebel army of kidnapped children.Livingston Award past winners
Wallace House,

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She was a 2008–2009 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow.

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