Raymond Khoury (Arabic: ريمون خوري) (born in Beirut, Lebanon) is a Lebanese screenwriter and novelist, best known as the author of the 2006 New York Times bestseller The Last Templar.
Raymond Khoury was born in Lebanon but spent his teenage years in Rye, New York, where his family moved in 1975 to escape the Lebanese Civil War.
Khoury returned to Lebanon after his graduation from Rye Country Day High School to attend the American University of Beirut and study architecture.
Shortly after Khoury completed his degree, fighting broke out in Lebanon again, and in February 1984 he was evacuated from Beirut by the U.S. Marine Corps aboard a Chinook helicopter.
After a few months working at a small architectural firm in London, Khoury moved to Fontainebleau, France, where he earned an MBA from INSEAD.