RESEARCH AFFILIATES :
Rami G. Khouri
Rami George Khouri, a Palestinian-Jordanian and US citizen, 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. His affiliations include being a member of the Brookings Institution Task Force on US Relations with the Islamic World, a Fellow of the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (Jerusalem), member of the Leadership Council of the Harvard University Divinity School, and board member of the East-West Institute, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, and the Jordan National Museum.
A former Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University, Mr. Khuri 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. He can
be reached through e-mail at
Rami.Khouri@dailystar.com.lb.
Some of
his articles are available at http://www.ramikhouri.com/
Joshua Stacher
Ph.D., University of St. Andrews, 2007
Middle Eastern Studies Post-Doctoral Fellow (2007-08)
Dr. Stacher specializes in authoritarian persistence and adaptation of Arab republican regimes with special reference to Egypt and Syria. Before coming to Syracuse, he was an adjunct professor of contemporary Egyptian history in the Department of History at the American University in Cairo and a country consultant for the International Crisis Group. His work has appeared in Middle East Journal, Arab Studies Quarterly, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Review of African Political Economy, Arab Reform Bulletin, and several pieces in Middle East Report. During the Spring 2008 semester he taught an undergraduate course entitled “International Relations of the Middle East.”
John Zogby
John Zogby is President and CEO of Zogby International, one of the nation's leading polling firms. Since 1984, he has been tracking public opinion in Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, and North America by conducting polls and focus groups for such clients as Reuters News Agency, MSNBC, NBC News, New York Post, Fox News, Knight-Ridder Newspapers, Gannett News Service, Coca Cola, Microsoft, CISCO Systems, MCI, and the United States Census Bureau.
Zogby holds degrees in history from Le Moyne College and Syracuse University and has taught history for 25 years. In addition, he is a member of the Board of Trustees of Le Moyne College, a Senior Advisor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and serves on the Advisory Council for Bio-Technology for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
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