Dr. Nabeel Khoury, Ph.D.

Dr. Nabeel Khoury, Ph.D. �76, an American of Lebanese descent currently in the Foreign Service, made a visit to the University�s Rockefeller College and Center for Legislative Development (CLD) on Feb. 19.

Khoury, third from left in the photo, is about to begin a new assignment as U.S. Consul General in Casablanca, Morocco.

Khoury, who received a doctorate in political science from Albany, has had a well-traveled foreign service career that has included positions in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt (Alexandria), and Rabat, primarily as a press or cultural attaché. After finishing a 9-month executive seminar put on for diplomats of his status in Washington, he begins his new assignment in Morocco.

Pictured at CLD are, from left, two of the center�s current students from its Egypt project, Farag Abulhoda of the People�s Assembly and Mohamed Jahin Mohamed of the Shoura (Egypt�s upper house); Khoury, Jim Ketterer, a CLD project manager; Peg Clement project manager for the Egyptian enterprise; and Dr. Abdo Baaklini, director of CLD.