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Riad al Khouri, a Jordanian economist, is Dean of the Business School at the Lebanese French University in Erbil, Iraq and Senior Economist at the William Davidson Institute of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His recent publications include “National security issues in Euro-Med and US FTA agreements in the Middle East” (Aussenwirtschaft journal, St Gallen 2007), EU and US Free Trade Agreements in the MENA (Carnegie Foundation, Paper No. 8 Washington DC/Beirut 2008, in Arabic and English), and “Lessons from the US-Jordan FTA” (Peterson Institute for International Economics The US-Morocco FTA Washington DC 2009) as well as numerous op-ed articles in European, American, and Middle East periodicals.
The first volume of the migration and the Arab World series dealt primarily with the trends in, consequences of, and policy responses to labor migration in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states since the “oil boom” period of the 1970s. This volume focuses on the countries of the Mashreq (i.e., Egypt and the Levant) as source and destination countries for various migrant groups, dating from the late 19th century up to the present day.
