Ramzi Khoury is an opinion columnist and satirist who publishes a weekly page, Piece of Mind, at the Saudi Gazette and elsewhere every Wednesday, Ramzi E. Khoury started his career in Granada Television in the 80s working on documentaries and since then has worked in the print, television and radio media all over the world.
In addition to reporting with international news agencies he held several posts in the media including Chief Sub Editor/Political Editor of the Jordan Times, Editor in Chief of the Arab Daily newspaper and Secretary General of the Arab Media Organization. He continues to be adviser to several newspapers, television and radio stations as well as online media.
He has worked with numerous satellite channels on television programs, documentaries and news and is often invited to offer his political analysis on television and radio stations from all over the world especially on Mideast and related issues.
Currently based in Malaysia with extensive travel in the Middle East and Europe Khoury advices governments and private sector organizations on Perception Management with focus on issues related to politics and religion including the divide between the Muslim World and the West and is active with several non-government organizations.
Before Malaysia he was based in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Palestine, Jordan, USA and the UK in order.
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The world media concluded that the results of Malaysian elections were fascinating. What was more so fascinating was the media coverage which was biased before, during and even after the election results. |
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02/26/2008 - 5:05 a.m. CST -- by Ramzi Khoury
By Ramzi E. Khoury Jeddah, on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 Comparatively speaking, the Jewish eligible voters in the USA are determined participators in elections but seeing the focus of the front-runners, you would think they are the main determining factor on who will win a party’s nomination for presidency! Now that the competition is as hot as it can get between Hillary and Barak for the Democratic nomination, and despite the fact that at the outset of the process they had both done everything a candidate can do to assure the Jewish voters as per their policy on Israel, they have again turned back to focus on Israel in an attempt to secure that Jewish vote and in a manner that implies that the elections are all about who is a greater supporter of Israel and therefore should become the next president! No wonder both Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton are both pissed off at Ralf Nader who decided to nominate himself; an act of aggr... [Read More] |
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02/18/2008 - 11:44 p.m. CST -- by Ramzi Khoury
By Ramzi E. Khoury Dubai Tuesday, February 19, 2008
It all started a couple of months ago when the sacked Ex-Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh came out claiming that his sacked Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahhar was planning to kill him. Zahhar in turn came out stating that despite the differences between the two, he will not kill him. To those who have insight into the Zahhar character, it sounded as if the statement was missing the "for now" in its conclusion. That was a serious affair because Zahhar and the sacked interior minister Said Syam and their likes are the ones who control the Hamas militias and are the characters in Hamas who have been ordering the mayhem, murders and torture, whereas Haniyah is nothing but a sitting duck in that organization with no military power. The differences between Haniyah and the Zahhar line inside of Hamas are major differences and historic. Haniyah was the office manager of the late leader of ... [Read More] |
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01/21/2008 - 11:51 p.m. CST -- by Ramzi Khoury
By Ramzi E. Khoury Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 22 January 2008 The committee investigating what really happened when Israel invaded Lebanon and had its mighty army defeated by Hizbollah in an unprecedented manner is expected to blame the government and the man leading it. The Winograd report is due on January 30th and Ehud Olmert is got to be dreading that day when his people are reminded again of how their famed army was humiliated by a bunch of militants. The defense minister of the time Peretz is out of office now and Olmert gets the rap this time all alone. Last time the government was criticized about the offensive and what supposedly caused the humiliating defeat, even the closest in his own party such as Tzipi Livny, called for his resignation. But last time Olmert was in a situation in which he had lost the meaning of his own political existence and his party’s. He was declared by all polls as the least popular premiere in the history of Isra... [Read More] |
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01/15/2008 - 3:24 a.m. CST -- by Ramzi Khoury
Ramzi E. Khoury Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 15 January 2008 According to Israeli and American officials when George Bush was in Israel a few days ago he made it clear in his closed-door meetings with Ehud Olmert that the US wants all building of settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem stopped until peace negotiations determine the borders of the two states. It seems he must have specifically remembered the ask he made of Ehud Olmert a while back to dismantle the illegal “outposts” scattered all over and which he had asked Ariel Sharon before in a public letter. Olmert had promised to do so, it seems, but did nothing about it. Bush moved on with his long-awaited tour of the Arabian Gulf and Olmert went out to declare that the fact the “outposts” remain in place is a “disgrace.” Olmert’s disgrace is evident in regards to these enclaves of ultra-radical settlers who take it upon themselves to steal land and build their &l... [Read More] |
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01/08/2008 - 10:32 p.m. CST -- by Ramzi Khoury
By Ramzi E. Khoury Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, 09 January 2008 Turnout at the primaries is great, not only on the Democrat side, but also Republican. From the outset, this American election is one of the greatest we have seen and may prove to be the greatest of all, not only because of the large numbers of voters but also the popular resolve that drove the masses out so early in the process. The American people are no longer disengaged. This is the case because the vast majority of Americans are no longer scared of a possible repeat of 9/11 as much as they are rightfully terrified of what the USA has become on the inside front and its terrible standing amongst most other nations. Is there a Democrat whose platform is not based on change before any other issue? Whether Barak, Hillary or John makes it to the Presidential elections and beyond there will be change in Washington D.C. Republican Rudolf Giuliani is not about change and he surely wasn’t bet... [Read More] |
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12/27/2007 - 1:18 a.m. CST -- by Ramzi Khoury
By Ramzi E. Khoury Kuala Lumpur – 25 December 2007-12-15 When the achievement one is striving for is not about personal popularity, a conflict between what needs to be done and what the public perceives to be right could result in a person declared a public enemy. Today, there is hardly an executive Palestinian who hasn’t been described as “traitor” or to say the least a sell-out, by some party here or there. As sad as it is, funny how a Palestinian leader needs to be killed by the enemy before the general public exonerates him of all the titles it bestowed on him and remembers him in opposite terms starting with “martyr” and not ending with “how can we replace him?” Only those who hang in their bunkers sending out revolutionary statements for public consumption with no intention of achieving results on the ground any time soon are the ones who remain publicly “clean.” In the early eighties when... [Read More] |
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12/18/2007 - 12:17 p.m. CST -- by Ramzi Khoury
By Ramzi E Khoury Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 18 December 2007 In the early eighties we had the British lefties pretty much behind us including the mainstream British Communist Party that disagreed with the PLO’s armed struggle and military operations, in line with the Israeli Communist Party (Rakah) and the Palestinian Communist Party, but they supported the cause of Palestine. It was very easy for me to work with communists and at the outset, as a spokesperson of the PLO in London, I became a hit with the radical communists hanging around on the fringe of British politics. Standing ovations galore, there was nothing more egoistic and seemingly successful than making a fiery speech before Vanessa Redgrave’s Trotskyite party which ardently supported Fateh. They had an interesting political agenda: the Arab masses in Egypt would soon heed the call to erupt and they will liberate Palestine; meanwhile Fateh should hit hard to pave the road. If Vanessa h... [Read More] |
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12/10/2007 - 9:35 p.m. CST -- by Ramzi Khoury
By Ramzi E Khoury Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 11 December 2007 The year 1982 was pivotal in my life. I had been accepted at a university in London despite the fact that I was only 16 years old. On the sidelines of my regular schooling for the Jordanian Tawjihi exams, with the help of my fluent English bestowed upon me by my mother’s dedication to the cause of English language, I had sat for and passed a few GCE O-Level exams, and one A-level. The A-Level was in classical Arabic that was a breeze due to my interest in Arabic poetry with focus on the works of the infamous Abu Nuwas whose talent was in taunting the rulers and religious establishment with dramatic descriptions of alcohol and deviant sexuality. I found in Abu Nuwas’s utter filth an answer to the most important questions of the exam and landed a “C” despite the fact that I had not studied for it nor expected to pass it. If I were superstitious, I would insist that luck landed me a deprive... [Read More] |
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12/03/2007 - 11:30 p.m. CST -- by Ramzi Khoury
By Ramzi E. Khoury Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stole the lights at the opening session of the GCC at Doha on Monday, not because of what he had to say, but by the mere virtue of his presence. |
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