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.