Cheryl A. Rubenberg is a writer and researcher specializing in the Middle East, formerly an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Florida International University

Florida International University

Florida International University is an American public research university in metropolitan Miami, Florida, in the United States, with its main campus in University Park...

. She is the author of several books about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The conflict is wide-ranging, and the term is also used in reference to the earlier phases of the same conflict, between Jewish and Zionist yishuv and the Arab population living in Palestine under Ottoman or...

, including Israel and the American National Interest (1989), Palestinian Women: Patriarchy and Resistance in the West Bank (2001), and The Palestinians in Search of a Just Peace (2003). She is also the editor of the Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2007).

Rubenberg formerly served on the board of advisors of "Deir Yassin Remembered," an organization founded to commemorate the 1948 Deir Yassin Massacre

Deir Yassin massacre

The Deir Yassin massacre took place on April 9, 1948, when around 120 fighters from the Irgun Zevai Leumi and Lohamei Herut Israel Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, a Palestinian-Arab village of roughly 600 people...

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Works

• Palestine Liberation Organization: Its Institutional Infrastructure. Belmont, MA: Institute of Arab Studies, (IAS monograph series), 1983. ISBN 0-912031-00-X
• Israel and the American National Interest: A Critical Examination. University of Illinois Press, 1986. ISBN 0-252-06074-1
• The United States, Israel, and Guatemala: Interests and conflicts. Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University. Dialogues), 1988.
• With Abbas Alnasrawi. Consistency of US Foreign Policy: The Gulf War and the Iran-Contra Affair. AAUG Monograph Series, No 23, 1989.
• Palestinian Women: Patriarchy and Resistance in the West Bank. Lynne Rienner Publishers
  Lynne Rienner Publishers
  Lynne Rienner Publishers is an independent scholarly and textbook publishing firm. It was founded in 1984 and publishes in the fields of international studies and comparative world politics. It also publishes books about US politics, sociology and criminology. It also translates foreign books to...
  
  , 2001. ISBN 1-55587-956-X
• The Palestinians: In Search of a Just Peace. Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc, 2003. ISBN 1-58826-200-6
• (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. 3 volumes. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010. ISBN 1588266869

External links

• Deir Yassin Remembered