Rami George Khouri

Rami George Khouri born 22 October 1948, in New York City to a Palestinian Arab Christians family. His father, George Khouri, a Nazarene journalist in what was the British mandate of Palestine had traveled with his wife to New York in 1947 to cover the United Nations (UN) debates about the future of Palestine. Rami is a journalist and editor with joint Palestinian-Jordanian and US citizenship whose family resides in Beirut, Amman, and Nazareth. [ [http://www.sfcg.org/sfcg/awards/khouri.htm sfcg.org] ] A highly regarded public speaker. [ [http://www.apbspeakers.com/themes/DefaultView/SpeakerPages/Rami%20George%20Khouri.aspx?engine=alpha American Program Bureau] ] After attending secondary school in Geneva, Switzerland Rami returned to the US to complete his education. [ [http://elahehrostamipovey.com/pdf/2_69ne.pdf Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa] Rami Khouri Personal History] Rami has also served for many years as the chief umpire for Little League baseball in Jordan. [ [http://www.qatar-conferences.com/nato/speakers.html#link9 Qatar-conferences] NATO and the Broader Middle East; The Role of Parliamentarians, speakers biography's]

Career

In 1971, Rami began his career working as a reporter for the English-language newspaper the Daily Star in Beirut, Lebanon. From 1972 to 1973, Rami 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

Rami is director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) at the American University of Beirut. [ [http://wwwlb.aub.edu.lb/~webifi/about/staff.htm AUB] ] His journalistic work includes writing books and an internationally syndicated column by progressive commentary agency called Agence Global, founded by Jahan Salehi. Rami also serves as editor at large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper, published throughout the Middle East with the International Herald Tribune. In recent years he 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]

Rami 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. [ [https://events.uchicago.edu/campusevents/eventdetail.phtml?eventid=51787 University of Chicargo] ] [ [http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/project/53/dubai_initiative.html?page_id=45 Belfer Center] ] Rami 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. Rami also serves on the board of the East-West Institute, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University and the National Museum of Jordan.

He was executive editor of the Daily Star newspaper from 2003-05, and previously was the editor in chief of the Jordan Times for seven years. He also wrote for many years from Amman, Jordan for leading 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 in recent years served as a consultant to the Jordanian tourism ministry on biblical archaeological sites. He often comments on Mideast issues in the international media, and lectures frequently at conferences and universities throughout the world. [ [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/press/releases/Khouri.shtml mtholyoke.edu] ]

Awards and personal life

Mr. 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. [ [http://www.agenceglobal.com/author.asp?type=2&id=7 Agence Global] ] He has BA (1970) and MSc (1998) degrees respectively in political science and mass communications from Syracuse University, NY, and is married to Ellen Kettaneh, with two grown boys. [ [http://cirs.georgetown.edu/52222.html Georgetown University,] School for Foreign Service in Qatar]

Published works

* "Monuments of Jordan" Published by I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 2008 ISBN 1860644244, 9781860644245
* "Lines in the Sand: The Roots of Arab Anger and the Future of the Middle East" Published by Independent Pub Group, 1992 ISBN 1556521111, 9781556521119
* "The Antiquities of the Jordan Rift Valley" Published by Al Kutba, 1988 ISBN 0944940498, 9780944940495
* "Petra: A Guide to the Capital of the Nabataeans" Published by Longman, 1986 ISBN 0582783852, 9780582783850
* "Jerash: A Frontier City of the Roman East" Published by Longman, 1986 ISBN 0582783844, 9780582783843
* "The Jordan Valley: Life and Society Below Sea Level" Published by Longman, 1981 ISBN 0582783186, 9780582783188

* "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

Footnotes

External links

* [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]