Nabeel A. Khoury

Nabeel A. Khoury is visiting associate professor of Middle East studies at Northwestern University and a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Hariri Center. Most recently, Khoury was affiliated with the Chicago Council for Global Affairs. Previously, as a Foreign Service officer with the rank of minister counselor, he was director of the Near East South Asia Office of the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research from 2008 to 2012. Khoury also served as deputy chief of mission in Yemen (2004-2007) and deputy director of the Media Outreach Centre in London (2002-2004). In 2003, during the Iraq war, Khoury served as department spokesperson at U.S. Central Command in Doha and in Baghdad.

Dr. Khoury earned his B.A. in political science from the American University of Beirut and his M.A. and P.h.D. in political science from the State University of New York at Albany. Before his foreign service career, he was an assistant professor of political science at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY, and earlier, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Jordan in Amman. During his years in academe, Khoury published articles on issues of leadership and development in the Arab world in The Middle East Journal, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and The International Journal of Middle East Studies. His most recent scholarly articles, on the regional impact of the Arab uprising and on U.S. policy in Yemen, appear in the summer 2013 and summer 2014 issues of Middle East Policy. He posts a blog on developments in the Middle East entitled, Middle East Corner.