About the Speaker: Rami G. Khouri is a Palestinian-American academic and journalist whose family resides in Beirut, Amman, and Nazareth. During his 50 years as a journalist in the Middle East, he was editor of the Jordan Times and the Daily Star (Beirut) newspapers, and contributed reporting and opinion pieces from the region to the Financial Times, NPR, BBC radio, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and other outlets.

Rami founded and managed the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI), at the American University of Beirut, where he also taught journalism for a decade. He has been a Harvard Nieman Journalism Fellow and a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Fellow of the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs in Arab East Jerusalem. He was a visiting scholar at Villanova, Oklahoma, Mt Holyoke, Syracuse, Northeastern, and Tufts universities. Rami is currently a distinguished fellow at IFI, a senior fellow at the Arab Center Washington, DC, and a regular contributor to Aljazeera online. His texts and interviews are available on X @ramikhouri.

Rami Khouri’s latest book, co-edited with Helena Cobban, is entitled Understanding Hamas and Why That Matters. For more information see:  bit.ly/HamasMatters

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