Fuad Khuri

Fuad Ishaq Khuri (; 1935 – 4 May 2003) was a Lebanese anthropologist and writer. He was professor of anthropology at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon from 1964 to 1987. Due to the worsening Lebanese civil war at the time, Khuri left the country for the United Kingdom and held a series of visiting professorships at the London School of Economics, University of Manchester, University of Chicago and the University of Oregon.

His books From Village to Suburb and Tribe and State in Bahrain are considered pioneering works in the field of Arab anthropology.

Biography Khuri was born in 1935 as a Lebanese Christian. He earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degree in anthropology at the American University of Beirut (AUB). In 1964, 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. He later joined AUB as an instructor in the same year and was later promoted to assistant professor in 1965. Khuri became associate professor in 1971, placed on tenure in 1972, and then promoted to professor in 1978. As a professor, he served multiple terms as chairperson of the university's Department of Sociology and the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. The book chronicles Bahrain's pre-modern history and proved controversial to the Bahraini government as the book was banned in the country despite high demand.

Due to escalations in the Lebanese civil war in 1987, Khuri resigned as professor and relocated with his family to the town of Reading, England. From 1987 to 1992, he worked as the director of the Issam Fares Foundation on behalf of his Lebanese friend and businessman, Issam Fares. After 1992, he began to solely concentrate on academia. Over the course of his career, Khuri authored 17 books and 40 articles on Arab culture.