Rami G. Khouri

Rami G. Khouri is a bi-weekly columnist for the Daily Star newspaper in Lebanon. He was founding director and now senior policy fellow of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut.

Twitter : @ramikhouri

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30 August 2018

Politics & economy

Jordan faces its historical reckoning

Rami G. Khouri: Rebuilding citizen trust in political institutions will require both economic and political measures in a genuinely consultative context, rather [...]Read the full article

Homemade weapons of our own mass destruction

5 May 2015

Labour

Homemade weapons of our own mass destruction

Rami G. Khouri: More than 21 million children and young adolescents across the Arab world are either out of school or at risk of dropping [...]Read the full article

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