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FEB 23
Khouri
MAR 9
Ischinger
[RECESS]
APR 6
Chandrasekaran
APR 20
Martel
APR 26
Salbi
MAY 4
Sherman
MAY 18
CANCELLED

Rami G. Khouri

Beirut, Lebanon "Daily Star"

Rami George Khouri, 56, is a Palestinian-Jordanian and US citizen whose family resides in Beirut, Amman, and Nazareth. He is executive editor of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper, published throughout the Middle East with the International Herald Tribune. He is an internationally syndicated political columnist and book author. 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.

He spent the 2001-02 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. For 18 years he was general manager of Al Kutba, Publishers, in Amman, Jordan and in recent years served as a consultant to the Jordanian tourism ministry on biblical archaeological sites.

He is a research associate at the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflict at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University (NY, USA) and a Fellow of the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (Jerusalem). He is a member of the board of the East-West Institute, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, and the National Museum of Jordan.

He was editor-in-chief of the Jordan Times for seven years, and wrote for many years from Amman for leading international publications, including the Financial Times, the Boston Globe and the Washington Post. He often comments on Mideast issues in the international media, and lectures frequently at conferences and universities throughout the world. For many years he was chief umpire of Little League baseball in Amman, Jordan.

He has BA and MSc degrees respectively in political science and mass communications from Syracuse University, NY, and is married, with two grown boys.

Khouri