Prof. Philip S Khoury

Ford International Professor of History

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Middle East and Islam (Especially Social and Political Aspects)
War and Reconstruction in Lebanon

Research Summary

Professor Khoury is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He served as President of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). He has been awarded fellowships from the Fulbright-Hays Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, and Thomas J. Watson Foundation. He has been a Visiting Associate of St. Antony’s College in the University of Oxford, and a Faculty Associate of Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He holds honorary degrees from Earth University, Trinity College, and the American University of Beirut. He received the Order of Merit of the Republic of Lebanon in 2025.

Recent Work