1. Fuad Ishaq Khuri was a Lebanese anthropologist and writer.
11 Facts About Fuad Khuri
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Fuad Khuri was professor of anthropology at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon from 1964 to 1987.
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Fuad Khuri was widely considered as a prominent scholar on Arab sociology and politics.
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Fuad Khuri earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degree in anthropology at the American University of Beirut.
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In 1964, Fuad Khuri completed his PhD in social anthropology at the University of Oregon, with his thesis being on the influence of men in Magburaka, Sierra Leone.
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Fuad Khuri later joined AUB as an instructor in the same year and was later promoted to assistant professor in 1965.
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Fuad Khuri became associate professor in 1971, placed on tenure in 1972, and then promoted to professor in 1978.
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In 1975, Fuad Khuri published From Village to Suburb: Order and Change in Greater Beirut, widely regarded as a pioneering case study of suburbs in the Middle East by an Arab anthropologist.
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Fuad Khuri was married to Sonia Jalbout Khuri, an AUB graduate of mathematics who taught the field in both Lebanon and the UK.
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Fuad Khuri worked as Fuad's research assistant and editor to his books.
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Fuad Khuri died on 4 May 2003 at the age of 68 and was survived by his wife and two children.