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Ambassador Clovis Maksoud, a lawyer, journalist and diplomat, is presently a Professor of International Law at American University . Prof. Maksoud is also the Director of the Center for the Global South at American University and a member of the Advisory Group of the United Nations Development Program. A Lebanese national, Ambassador Maksoud was the Chief Representative of the League of Arab States in India from 1961-1966. From 1967-1979, he served as the Senior Editor of Al-Ahram and then Chief Editor of Al-Nahar Weekly. He is part of UNDP’s Advisory Board for the Arab Human Development Reports and is the President of the Foundation for Arab Policy Studies. In 2006, a chair was established and his and his late wife's name, the Clovis and Hala Salam Maksoud Chair, at Georgetown University . Prof. Maksoud is the author of many articles and books on the Middle East and the global south, among them: "The Meaning of Non Alignment", "The Crisis of the Arab Left", "Reflections on Afro-Asianism", and "The Arab Image", just to list a few. He has also been the Chairperson and Convener of many conferences on the environment and development, human rights, human security, landmines, population and disarmament. His most recent book is Al-ArabFizaman Al-Di’Ya’a.
Ambassador Maksoud is the 2006 recipient of lifetime achievement awards from the American University of Beirut ’s Alumni Association in Washington, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee during ist convention in June, and US- OMEN