[1] His books From Village to Suburb and Tribe and State in Bahrain are considered pioneering works in the field of Arab anthropology.

[5] In 1964, Khuri completed his PhD in social anthropology at the University of Oregon, with his thesis being on the influence of men in Magburaka, Sierra Leone.

[7][2] In 1980, he published Tribe and State in Bahrain, a detailed sociopolitical analysis of the Middle East's smallest country based on a year-long field trip undertaken by Khuri in 1974-75.

[9] Due to escalations in the Lebanese civil war in 1987, Khuri resigned as professor and relocated with his family to the town of Reading, England.

[1] In his later years while stricken with illness, Sonia would accompany Fuad on his field trips and scribe his notes.