Rami Khouri

The history of American foreign policy toward the Middle East.

A Palestinian-American take on the attack on Israel and the political context of the violence.

How Israeli and Palestinian media are reacting to President Trump's trip to the Middle East.

Syrian rebels have lost a strategic stronghold, Turkey is becoming more aggressive, and Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry are making new pushes for peace.

A video is also circulating that purports to show U.S.-backed rebels beheading a 12-year-old refugee in Aleppo.

U.S.-backed forces are closing in on the corridor between Raqqa, the Islamic State's capital in Syria. Russia is hoping to defeat the Syrian rebels and strengthen Bashar Al-Assad.

The presidential candidates agree there’s a need for Sunni Arab cooperation in the fight against ISIS. How does the Western "whack-a-mole" strategy compare to the Gulf nations' approach?

Learn about the winners of the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize: four groups that make up the National Dialogue Quartet in Tunisia.

Masha Gessen, Rami Khouri and Sheryl WuDunn offer analysis of some of the major speeches at the opening session of the U.N. General Assembly.

Secretary Kerry says that "every single aspect of the president's strategy.. has been offered by one country or multiple countries." So how exactly is the anti-ISIS coalition forming?

President Obama met with Congressional leaders yesterday to outline the scope of violence in Iraq, and what the US should do in response. Rami Khouri, director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and David Sanger, New York Times national security correspondent and author of Confront and Conceal (Broadway, 2013), talk about the range of options, from more personnel on the ground to air strikes and diplomatic pressures.

Rami Khouri, director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, on how his beloved Syracuse basketball team's zone defense got him thinking about judicial review, the American constitution, and national life.

In Monday night's third and final presidential debate, which is focused on foreign policy, the escalating crisis in the Middle East will be sure to dominate. The violence in Syria, an...

Rami Khouri, director, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, talks about the Netanyahu and Abbas speeches at the U.N. and other news from the Middle East.

Rami Khouri, director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and David Makovsky, senior fellow and director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process, The Washington Institute, discuss the formation of a Palestinian Unity government and the implications for Israel and Palestine, as well as the role Egypt played in brokering the deal.

Moammar Gaddhafi's government agreed to a ceasefire this morning, in a dramatic about face following the UN Security Council authorization of military action and a no-fly zone over Libya. Rami Khouri, director of the American University of Beirut’s Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, discusses events leading up to the ceasefire, and what it means for Gadhafi and the anti-government protests in Libya.

Rami Khouri, director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, reviews the documents leaked to Al Jazeera from Palestinian/Israeli negotiations.

Rami Khouri, director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, talks about the portrayal of Arab leaders in the WikiLeaks cables, and the response overseas.

Rami Khouri, director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and David Makovsky, senior fellow and director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at The Washington Institute, discuss the current Middle East peace talks in Washington.

Lebanon's top Shia Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah died yesterday. He was revered for bridging religious divides and for promoting social services and women's rights. Rami Khouri, Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, remembers the cleric. Khouri says that Fadlallah was an enlightened and progressive man in the class of Martin Luther King. However, the cleric was also known as a spiritual leader to Hezbollah and Washington labeled him a terrorist because of this association.