On Wednesday 2 December 2009 Dr Nabeel A. Khoury, Director of the Near East South Asia Office, Bureau of Political Analysis, US State Department, will speak on “Crisis in Yemen: Immediate and long term challenges” from 12-1pm.
Dr Nabeel A. Khoury is Director of the Near East South Asia Office of the State Department’s bureau of political analysis.
Previously, from 2007-08, he was the Department of State Chair at the U.S. Marine War College at Quantico. A Foreign Service Officer since 1987, Dr Khoury has served most recently as Deputy Chief of Mission in Yemen (2004-07), Deputy Director of the Media Outreach Centre in London (2002-04), and Consul General in Morocco (1994-97). In 2003, During the Iraq war, he served as Department spokesperson at Centcom in Doha and in Baghdad. Before his Foreign Service career, he was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the College Saint Rose in Albany, NY and earlier as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Jordan, Amman. During his years in academe, Dr Khoury published a number of articles in such journals as The Middle East Journal, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and The International Journal of Middle East Studies on issues of leadership and development in the Arab world.
Dr Khoury’s speech will be off the record.
This discussion will be moderated by Nigel Inkster, Director of Transnational Threats and Political Risk at the IISS. It will take place in the Lee Kuan Yew Conference Room at Arundel House, 13-15 Arundel Street, Temple Place, London WC2R 3D.
If you would like to attend, please RSVP Kelly Signorelli-Chaplin at: currentevents@iiss.org.
