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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt">“All Roads Lead to Lebanon: Microcosm of the Best & Worst in the Modern Middle East”<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Rami G. Khouri<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Fares Center Spring 2011 Visiting Scholar, Tufts University;
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Director, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Rami George Khouri</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">, an internationally syndicated political columnist and book author, is the first Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International
Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and also serves as a non-resident senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Dubai School of Government. He is Editor-at-Large, and former executive editor, of the Beirut-based “Daily Star” newspaper.
Over the years, Khouri has penned several regular columns, including “Jordan Antiquity” (1997-2001) and presently, “A View from the Arab World.” Khouri is also a regular commentator regarding current affairs for BBC radio and television, CNN, NPR, PBS, Al-Jazeera
International, and other leading international media.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Khouri received his B.A. in Political Science and Journalism from Syracuse University and a MSc. degree (Mass Communications) from the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Chaired by:
<b>Karam Dana</b>, </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Tufts University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 5:30 pm<br>
Cabot 7th Floor - Tufts University <br>
Open to the Public<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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