Dean and CEO of Northwestern University in Qatar since July 1, 2020, State of Qatar.

He is the founder of the Institute for Advanced Study of the Global South at the same university, a member of its Joint Advisory Board, and the Anthony Shadid Professor of Global Media, Politics, and Culture at Northwestern University since July 2020.

He served as Associate Dean for Administration and Interim Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, Founding Director of the Advanced Research Project in Global Communications at the Annenberg School of Communication, and Professor of Global Communications at the Annenberg School of Communication.

He was also an Andrew Carnegie Fellow at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C., the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and the American Council of Learned Societies.

He has served as a visiting professor at the Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies at Stockholm University in Sweden, the Edward Said Chair of American Studies at the American University of Beirut , the Dubrent Chair of International Relations at the University of Paris-Sorbonne in France, an assistant professor of international relations at the American University in Washington, D.C., the director of graduate studies at the School of Communication at the University of North Dakota in the United States, and an assistant professor of cultural studies at the same university.

He has experience in international communications, media and Arab politics.

He holds a PhD in Mass Communication from Ohio University in the United States in 1996, a Master's degree in Communications from the same university in 1994, and a Bachelor's degree in Communication Arts from Notre Dame University in Lebanon in 1992.