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Rami George Khouri was born 22 October 1948 in New York City to an Arab Palestinian Christian family. His father, George Khouri, a Nazarene journalist in what was the British mandate of Palestine, had traveled with his wife to New York in 1947 to cover the United Nations (UN) debates about the future of Palestine. Rami is a journalist and editor with joint Palestinian-Jordanian and United States citizenship whose family resides in Beirut, Amman, and Nazareth.〔(sfcg.org )〕 He is also a highly regarded public speaker.〔(American Program Bureau )〕 After attending secondary school at the International School of Geneva in Switzerland Rami returned to the US to complete his education.〔(Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ) Rami Khouri Personal History〕 Rami has also served for many years as the chief umpire for Little League baseball in Jordan.〔(Qatar-conferences ) NATO and the Broader Middle East; The Role of Parliamentarians, speakers biography's〕 ==Career== In 1971, Khouri began his career working as a reporter for the English-language newspaper ''The Daily Star'' in Beirut, Lebanon. From 1972 to 1973, Khouri continued writing columns for the paper while working as managing editor of Middle East Sketch magazine. Following a year in the United States as program administrator for the Division of International Programs Abroad at Syracuse University, Khouri returned to Beirut to become managing editor of Middle East Money in Beirut from 1973 to 1974. He then moved to Amman, Jordan, where he served as editor-in-chief of Jordan’s English-language daily, the ''Jordan Times'', from 1975 to 1982 and again from 1987 Khouri is director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) at the American University of Beirut.〔(AUB )〕 His journalistic work includes writing books and an internationally syndicated column by progressive commentary agency called Agence Global, founded by Jahan Salehi. Khoury also serves as editor at large of the Beirut-based ''Daily Star'' newspaper, published throughout the Middle East with the ''International Herald Tribune''. 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.〔(University of Delaware ) Speakers Biography〕 Khouri was a Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University (2001–2002), nonresident senior fellow of the Dubai Initiative at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and was appointed a member of the Brookings Institution Task Force on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World.〔(University of Chicargo )〕〔(Belfer Center )〕 Khoury 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 (PASSIA), and a member of the Leadership Council of the Harvard University Divinity School. Khoury also serves on the board of the EastWest Institute, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University and the National Museum of Jordan. He was executive editor of the ''Daily Star'' newspaper from 2003–05, and previously was the editor in chief of the ''Jordan Times'' for seven years. 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 often comments on Mideast issues in the international media, and lectures frequently at conferences and universities throughout the world.〔(mtholyoke.edu )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rami George Khouri」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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