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Cheryl A. Rubenberg, independent analyst and former associate professor of political science at Florida International University, died on 16 June 2017 at age seventy-one. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, she earned her bachelor's in political science from Hunter College, her master's in international relations from Johns Hopkins University, and her Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Miami (1979). After a year at Florida Atlantic University, she joined the political science faculty at Florida International University. A student who took her class on American government wrote that Professor Rubenberg “changed my life forever” by exposing the business interests that motivate leaders of American government and media.
Cheryl began her career researching Latin America, but changed her focus to Palestine after visiting a refugee camp in Beirut before the expulsion of the PLO. She wrote several pioneering books, including Israel and the American National Interest: A Critical Examination (University of Illinois Press, 1989), Palestinian Women: Patriarchy and Resistance in the West Bank (Lynne Rienner, 2001), and The Palestinians: In Search of a Just...