Rami George Khouri, an internationally syndicated political columnist, journalist and author, will speak on "Four Years After 9/11: An Arab Perspective on the U.S., the Middle East and Terrorism" at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Oct. 17.
Khouri's talk will be from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in Eaton Humanities Building room 150. The event is sponsored by the Global Media Studies program at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and is free and open to the public.
"Rami is best when writing about how events appear to ordinary Arab citizens," said Professor Bella Mody, de Castro Chair in Global Media Studies. "He raises universal moral and political questions about abuse and likens the dehumanization and powerlessness of Arabs to American blacks in Ellison's 1952 classic."
Khouri is a Palestinian-Jordanian and U.S. citizen whose family resides in Beirut, Amman and Nazareth. He is editor at large and former executive editor of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper, which is published throughout the Middle East with the International Herald Tribune. He is a frequent analyst on National Public Radio and the BBC and also is a columnist in the Financial Times and .
Khouri 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, Boston Globe and 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.
In recent years he also has hosted programs on archaeology, history and current public affairs on Jordan Television and Radio Jordan. He often comments on Middle East issues in the international media and lectures frequently at conferences and universities throughout the world.
Khouri 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 U.S. Relations with the Islamic World.
He also is a research associate at the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflict at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, a fellow of the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs in Jerusalem and a member of the Leadership Council of the Harvard University Divinity School.
He currently serves on the board of the East-West Institute, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University and the Jordan National Museum.
Khouri earned a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree in mass communications from Syracuse University.
For more information on the talk, contact Mody at (303) 492-1912 or Bella.Mody@Colorado.Edu.