Rami Khouri
Dubai Initiative Senior Fellow, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and Editor-at-Large of the Daily Star
Contact:
Email: rami.khouri@dailystar.com.lb
Experience
Rami George Khouri is a Palestinian-Jordanian and U.S. citizen whose family resides in Beirut, Amman, and Nazareth. He is director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut. His journalistic work includes writing books and an internationally syndicated column, and he also serves as editor at large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper, published throughout the Middle East with the International Herald Tribune.
He spent the 2001–2002 academic year as a Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University and was appointed a member of the Brookings Institution Task Force on US Relations with the Islamic World. He 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), and a member of the Leadership Council of the Harvard University Divinity School. He also serves on the board of the East-West Institute, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University (USA), and the Jordan National Museum.
He was executive editor of the Daily Star newspaper in 2003–2005, and before that had been editor-in-chief of the Jordan Times for seven years, when 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 has hosted programs on archaeology, history, and current public affairs on Jordan Television and Radio Jordan. He often comments on Mideast issues in the international media and lectures frequently at conferences and universities throughout the world.
He has BA and MSc degrees respectively in political science and mass communications from Syracuse University
August 6, 2008
"Conquering Tree Houses"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Dubai Initiative Senior Fellow, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and Editor-at-Large of the Daily Star
This is a dark day for the Palestinians, but not the end of the line. When they hit bottom -- and they are almost there -- the Palestinians will find better leadership that can regain their cohesion and credibility, and their self-respect.
Department of Defense
August 4, 2008
"Ten Principles for US Policy in the Middle East"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Dubai Initiative Senior Fellow, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and Editor-at-Large of the Daily Star
In recent months, Rami Khouri has been in Washington talking with friends and colleagues, and generating a list of ten principles and policies that should define US policy in the Middle East.
July 30, 2008
"Advice to Heed"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Dubai Initiative Senior Fellow, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and Editor-at-Large of the Daily Star
Thoughts worth pondering from a member of a rare species in Washington these days: the experienced, impartial, patriotic American public servant who knows both Washington and the Middle East -- and speaks honestly to both.
July 28, 2008
"Good News and Bad in US Public Diplomacy"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Dubai Initiative Senior Fellow, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and Editor-at-Large of the Daily Star
The new Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, James Glassman, is 'losing' the American arrogance in public diplomacy. But ironically, his game plan provides publicity for terrorists and extremists, and neglects necessary approaches to engage Arab and Muslim public life.
July 22, 2008
"War's Unintended Consequences"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Dubai Initiative Senior Fellow, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and Editor-at-Large of the Daily Star
It now seems clear that war -- at least these two wars -- generates the additional threat of increased Salafist terrorism, according to an important and ongoing study by an American scholar
July 21, 2008
"Why Everyone is Negotiating in the Middle East"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Dubai Initiative Senior Fellow, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and Editor-at-Large of the Daily Star
The main reason so many diplomatic initiatives have sprouted in the past few months is to see whether the key players in the Middle East can achieve their goals through diplomacy and politics rather than through confrontation and war.
July 15, 2008
"Whose Crimes? Against Whose Humanity?"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Dubai Initiative Senior Fellow, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and Editor-at-Large of the Daily Star
The ICC warrant against Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir evokes the thought that not all crimes against humanity are treated similarly. Such should not be the case.
July 14, 2008
"Fourth Inning of the Iran-US Game"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Dubai Initiative Senior Fellow, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and Editor-at-Large of the Daily Star
In the past four weeks I have been in Washington, I have heard people speak more of Iran than of the local Nationals baseball team, because the Nationals are not playing well and the Iranians are.
July 7, 2008
"Militance and Defiance in the Middle East"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Dubai Initiative Senior Fellow, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and Editor-at-Large of the Daily Star
Large numbers of Arabs, Iranians and Turks -- hundreds of millions of people -- have shed their legacy of passive acquiescence in their own suffering, weakness, marginalization and victimization.
July 1, 2008
"The Winds of Diplomacy"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Dubai Initiative Senior Fellow, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and Editor-at-Large of the Daily Star
For the United States or Israel to attack Iran now seems unlikely given the blossoming diplomacy with Israel on several fronts, and the likely downshift of the US occupation of Iraq. A cost-benefit analysis favors diplomacy.
