Rami George Khouri is director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut (AUB). He is also a senior fellow at the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School; a research associate at the Middle East Institute at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University; a fellow of the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (Jerusalem); and he lectures annually at AUB and Northeastern and Villanova universities. Khouri has written a number of books, is an internationally syndicated columnist, and serves as editor-at-large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper. He was executive editor of the Daily Star from 2003-05, and before that was editor-in-chief of the Jordan Times.