Rami George Khouri

In 1971, Khouri began his career working as a reporter for the English-language newspaper The Daily Star in Beirut, Lebanon. From 1972 to 1973, Khouri continued writing columns for the paper while working as managing editor of Middle East Sketch magazine. Following a year in the United States as program administrator for the Division of International Programs Abroad at Syracuse University, Khouri returned to Beirut to become managing editor of Middle East Money in Beirut from 1973 to 1974. He then moved to Amman, Jordan, where he served as editor-in-chief of Jordan's English-language daily, the Jordan Times, from 1975 to 1982 and again from 1987.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

Khouri is former director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) at the American University of Beirut.{{cite web|url=http://wwwlb.aub.edu.lb/~webifi/about/staff.htm|title=AUB|publisher=}}{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} His journalistic work includes writing books and an internationally syndicated column by progressive commentary agency Agence Global, founded by Jahan Salehi. Khouri also serves as editor at large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper, published throughout the Middle East with the International Herald Tribune. He had hosted "Encounter", a weekly current affairs talk show on Jordan Television, and "Jordan Ancient Cultures", a weekly archaeology program on Radio Jordan.[http://www.udel.edu/global/agenda/2005/speakers/speaker1.html University of Delaware] Speakers Biography

Khouri was a Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University (2001–2002), nonresident senior fellow of the Dubai Initiative at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and was appointed a member of the Brookings Institution Task Force on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World.{{cite web|url=https://events.uchicago.edu/campusevents/eventdetail.phtml?eventid=51787|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805205152/https://events.uchicago.edu/campusevents/eventdetail.phtml?eventid=51787|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-08-05|title=University of Chicago}}{{cite web|url=http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/project/53/dubai_initiative.html?page_id=45|title=Programs & Projects – Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs|website=belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu}} Khouri is a research associate at the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflict at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University (NY, USA), a Fellow of the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs, Jerusalem (PASSIA), and a member of the Leadership Council of the Harvard University Divinity School. Khouri also serves on the board of the EastWest Institute, the Center for Contemporary Arab studies at Georgetown University and the National Museum of Jordan.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

He was executive editor of the Daily Star newspaper from 2003 to 2005, and had been the editor in chief of the Jordan Times for seven years before that. He also wrote for many years from Amman, Jordan for international publications, including the Financial Times, the Boston Globe and the Washington Post. For 18 years he was general manager of Al Kutba, publishers, in Amman, and has served as a consultant to the Jordanian tourism ministry on Biblical archaeological sites. He comments on Mideast issues in the international media, and lectures at conferences and universities throughout the world.{{cite web|url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/press/releases/Khouri.shtml|title=Acclaimed Newspaper Editor, Author, and Commentator Rami George Khouri to be First Global Studies Fellow at New Center for Global Initiatives|date=27 October 2004|publisher=|access-date=8 August 2008|archive-date=7 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607015631/http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/press/releases/Khouri.shtml|url-status=dead}}

In the fall of 2017 Khouri was a visiting professor at Villanova University.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

Khouri wrote that he believes that "allocating blame" is counterproductive. Writing for a Lebanese newspaper, the Daily Star, he stated that "We end up with a situation in which it becomes easy for Arabs to blame Israel and the Western powers for the problems of our region." He believes that "the truth is in between, with Arab, Israel and Western actors all having to share the blame for contributing to the distressing conditions that define the Arab world."{{cite web|title= This week's grim Arab history lesson |publisher =Daily Star (Lebanon) |url = http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=123532#axzz1C4QKEeZ9|author=Rami George Khouri |date=January 12, 2011|isbn = }}

Khouri was the 2004 winner of the Eliav-Sartawi Awards for Middle East Journalism in the Arab Press category In November 2006, he was the co-recipient of the Pax Christi International Peace Award for his efforts to bring peace and reconciliation to the Middle East.{{cite web|url=http://www.agenceglobal.com/author.asp?type=2&id=7|title=Agence Global|access-date=2008-08-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080918201018/http://www.agenceglobal.com/author.asp?type=2&id=7|archive-date=2008-09-18|url-status=dead}}

He has BA (1970) and MSc (1998) degrees respectively in political science and mass communications from Syracuse University, New York, and is married to Ellen Kettaneh. They have two grown sons.[http://cirs.georgetown.edu/52222.html Georgetown University] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080924162325/http://cirs.georgetown.edu/52222.html |date=2008-09-24 }}, School for Foreign Service in Qatar

• Palestinian Christians

• The Antiquities of the Jordan Rift Valley Published by Al Kutba, 1988 {{ISBN|0-944940-49-8}}, {{ISBN|978-0-944940-49-5}}
• Petra: A Guide to the Capital of the Nabataeans Published by Longman, 1986 {{ISBN|0-582-78385-2}}, {{ISBN|978-0-582-78385-0}}
• Jerash: A Frontier City of the Roman East Published by Longman, 1986 {{ISBN|0-582-78384-4}}, {{ISBN|978-0-582-78384-3}}
• The Jordan Valley: Life and Society Below Sea Level Published by Longman, 1981 {{ISBN|0-582-78318-6}}, {{ISBN|978-0-582-78318-8}}
• USAID and the Private Sector in Jordan: A Chronicle : the Genesis, August 1985-August 1988 Published by USAID, 1989
• The View from East of the Jordan Published by Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine, 1998
• Aqaba: port of Palestine on the China Sea Co-author Rami G. Khouri and Donald S. Whitcomb Published by Al Kutba, 1988
• Islamic Banking: Knotting a New Network Published by Aramco, 1987
• For Those who Share a Will to Live: Perspectives on a Just Peace in the Middle East Published by Resource Center for Nonviolence, 1985

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• [http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Rami-G-Khouri.ashx Column archive] at The Daily Star
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• {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080627142140/http://fora.tv/2007/11/15/Rami_Khouri_on_U_S__Policy_in_the_Middle_East Rami Khouri on U.S. Policy in the Middle East]}}, 15 November 2007
• [https://acor.digitalrelab.com/index.php?s=filter=collection_name:Rami%20Khouri%20Collection Rami Khouri collection] at the American Center of Research Digital Archive

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