What is Clovis Maksoud?
[[File:Clovis Maksoud 2015.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Maksoud in 2015]] '''Clovis Maksoud''' (December 17, 1926 &ndash; May 15, 2016) was an [[Americans|American]] diplomat and journalist. He was born in [[Bristow, Oklahoma|Bristow]], [[Oklahoma]]. He served as Ambassador of the [[Arab League]] to [[India]] from 1961 through 1966, to the [[United Nations]] from 1979 through 1990 and at the same time to the [[United States]]. He worked with presidents [[John F. Kennedy]], [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], [[Jimmy Carter]], [[Ronald Reagan]] and [[George H. W. Bush]]. Besides from being an ambassador, Maksoud was the senior editor of [[Al-Ahram]]. He also served as professor of International Relations and director of the Center for the Global South at [[American University]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]. Maksoud died on May 15, 2016 at a hospital in Washington, D.C. from a [[cerebral hemorrhage]] at the age of 89.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/clovis-maksoud-envoy-of-the-arab-world-to-the-west-dies-at-89/2016/05/18/dd8f6708-1c38-11e6-b6e0-c53b7ef63b45_story.html Clovis Maksoud, envoy of the Arab world to the West, dies at 89]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Maksoud, Clovis}} [[Category:1926 births]] [[Category:2016 deaths]] [[Category:Ambassadors of the United States to India]] [[Category:Academics from Washington, D.C.]] [[Category:Journalists from Oklahoma]] [[Category:Politicians from Oklahoma]]