PAST EVENT
9 Months of Obama in the Middle East: Time to Deliver?"
Director's Luncheon
Series: Belfer Center Directors' Luncheon
RSVP required - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
October 21, 2009
12:15-1:45 p.m.
Description:
POSITIVE RSVP ONLINE ONLY: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/khouri.html
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a directors' lunch with Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative, Director, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut, and Editor-at-Large, The Daily Star.
Rami 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. He also serves as editor at large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper.
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, 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 Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University.
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 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.
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