CV

POSITIONS

• Associate Professor, Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2025-
• Visiting Research Fellow, United Nations University, Belgium 2024 
• Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, Gulf Research Center, Jeddah 2023-2024
• Non-Resident Research Fellow, Gulf Research Center, Jeddah, 2022-2023
• Non-Resident Fellow, Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington 2020- 
• Fellow, Sectarianism, Proxies and De-sectarianisation project, Lancaster University 2020-2022
• Associate Professor and Director, Middle East Studies Center, American University in Cairo, 2016-2019
• Visiting Scholar, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 2019
• Visiting Scholar, Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, New York University, January – June 2017
• Visiting Research Fellow, Changing Character of War Programme, University of Oxford, September – December 2016
• Visiting Fellow, Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics, 2014-2015
• Visiting Scholar, Centre d’Etudes de Relations Internationales (CERI), Sciences Po, Paris, July 2015
• Visiting Research Fellow, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, June 2011

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

• International Relations of/in the Middle East
• Middle Eastern, North African and Mediterranean Politics
• Muslim minority – state relations
• Security and development studies

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) 2022
• Partner in successful grant application to enable academic exchange (staff mobility and student exchange) between AUC and the University of Salzburg, 2019
• Professor mobility grant from EuroMeSCo for EU academic participation in a 2-day post-graduate student workshop I convened: “The EU, Middle East and Africa in the 21st Century”, American University in Cairo, 2019
• European Union funding for an academic – policy project in Egypt, 2018
• Faculty Research Award, 2018
• Faculty Research Grant, AUC, 2017
• Faculty Conference Grant, AUC, 2017
• Travel Grant, Gulf Research Centre, 2023, 2019, 2018, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2011 
• Conference Grant, Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics, 2015
• “Mapping Foreign Policy in the GCC” Research Grant, Middle East Centre, London School of Economics, 2015
• HRH Prince Alwaleed Al Saud Scholarship for travel to Saudi Arabia, 2011
• British Institute of Persian Studies Travel Grant, 2010

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS, EDITORIAL AND ADVISORY BOARD POSITIONS

• Founding editor of the monograph and edited collection series ‘Peace Politics in the Middle East’, Liverpool University Press, 2024- 
• Committee member overseeing BRISMES Gaza HE Fund, 2024-
• Journal of the Global South, Associate Editor, 2024-
• British International Studies Association (co-convener Foreign Policy Working Group, 2022-2023)
• International Studies Association (elected to the ISA Foreign Policy Analysis section Executive Board May, 2020-2022)
• Founding editor of the monograph and edited collection series ‘The Gulf States in International Affairs’, Lexington Books, 2021-
• Member of the scientific committee, Middle East Congress on Politics and Society, Sakarya University, Turkey, 2018-
• Member, Advisory Board, Cairo Review of Global Affairs, 2016-2019
• Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
• British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES)
• Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS) 

LANGUAGES AND FIELD RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• Field research throughout the Middle East and North Africa (Palestine, Morocco, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Israel, UAE, Qatar), with further research in Germany, Russia and USA
• Languages: basic French and Arabic