Ruby Mellen

Ruby Mellen was an editorial fellow at Foreign Policy from 2016-2017.

Articles by Ruby Mellen
Iranian opposition demonstrators carry a large green flag through the crowd during a demonstration in support of defeated reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, in Tehran on June 15, 2009, following an election that has divided the nation. Opposition supporters defied a ban to stage a mass rally in Tehran in protest at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's landslide election win, as Iran faced a growing international backlash over the validity of the election and the subsequent crackdown on opposition protests.
Iranian opposition demonstrators carry a large green flag through the crowd during a demonstration in support of defeated reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, in Tehran on June 15, 2009, following an election that has divided the nation. Opposition supporters defied a ban to stage a mass rally in Tehran in protest at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's landslide election win, as Iran faced a growing international backlash over the validity of the election and the subsequent crackdown on opposition protests.

Rouhani Gets a Hard-line Challenger for Iranian Presidency

The Cable
Ruby Mellen
This photo taken on April 23, 2013 shows two woman feeding a baby at a temporary settlement in Yaan, southwest China's Sichuan province. Tens of thousands of homeless survivors of China's devastating quake are living in makeshift tents or on the streets, facing shortages of food and supplies as well as an uncertain future. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/Getty Images)
This photo taken on April 23, 2013 shows two woman feeding a baby at a temporary settlement in Yaan, southwest China's Sichuan province. Tens of thousands of homeless survivors of China's devastating quake are living in makeshift tents or on the streets, facing shortages of food and supplies as well as an uncertain future. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/Getty Images)

United States to Cut Funding to U.N. Population Fund Over Claims U.N. Calls ‘Erroneous’

The Cable
Emily Tamkin, Ruby Mellen
COLOGNE, GERMANY - JANUARY 09: A flashmob gather in front of Hauptbahnhof main railway station to protest against the New Year's Eve sex attacks on January 9, 2016 in Cologne, Germany. Over 100 women have filed charges of sexual molestation, robbery and in two cases, rape, stemming from aggressive groping and other behavior by gangs of drunken men described as Arab or North African at Hauptbahnhof on New Year's Eve. Police have recently stated that at least some of the men identified so far are refugees, which is feeding the propaganda of right-wing groups opposed to Germany's open-door refugee policy. Germany took in approximately 1.1 million migrants and refugees in 2015. (Photo by Sascha Schuermann/Getty Images)
COLOGNE, GERMANY - JANUARY 09: A flashmob gather in front of Hauptbahnhof main railway station to protest against the New Year's Eve sex attacks on January 9, 2016 in Cologne, Germany. Over 100 women have filed charges of sexual molestation, robbery and in two cases, rape, stemming from aggressive groping and other behavior by gangs of drunken men described as Arab or North African at Hauptbahnhof on New Year's Eve. Police have recently stated that at least some of the men identified so far are refugees, which is feeding the propaganda of right-wing groups opposed to Germany's open-door refugee policy. Germany took in approximately 1.1 million migrants and refugees in 2015. (Photo by Sascha Schuermann/Getty Images)

The Rapist’s Loophole: Marriage

Feature
Ruby Mellen
BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 05: Young women training to become florists, including a Muslim woman wearing a headscarf, bundle flower bouquets shortly before the arrival of German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the BildungsWerk Kreuzberg, a vocational training school in the immigrant-heavy district of Kreuzberg, on September 5, 2008 in Berlin, Germany. Merkel is visiting schools across Germany in order to get a better unserstanding of the state of Germany's education system. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 05: Young women training to become florists, including a Muslim woman wearing a headscarf, bundle flower bouquets shortly before the arrival of German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the BildungsWerk Kreuzberg, a vocational training school in the immigrant-heavy district of Kreuzberg, on September 5, 2008 in Berlin, Germany. Merkel is visiting schools across Germany in order to get a better unserstanding of the state of Germany's education system. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

An EU Court Okays Headscarf Bans in the Workplace

The Cable
Ruby Mellen
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Turkish President Erdogan Calls Dutch ‘Nazi Remnants’

The Cable
Robbie Gramer, Ruby Mellen
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