He is professor of international relations and conflict resolution at the Arab American University, Palestine. He is the Board’s Director of Policy and Conflict Resolution Studies Center at the same university where this center is acting as think tank and policy-oriented platform for both graduate students and local and foreign experts as well. He acted as ex dean for Arts school at the Arab American university in 2015-2017 and head for board of directors of the policy and conflict resolution studies center 2019-2021. He wrote books and articles in international refereed journals dealing with IR and peace studies. He obtained wide range of awards including Fulbright fellowship, Erasmus plus, DAAD and Marie Currie awards. His major research interests are conflict and peace studies, civil society and political elites. He supervised more that fifty research master ad PhD thesis local and globally. His latest article is “The Vitality of Popular Resistance in Transforming the Conflict with the Occupation in Palestine”, published in Conflict Studies Quarterly, Romania 2021. He also presented a research paper in Ankara, Turkey conference on exploring the relationship between crisis management and public relation in public and private organizations in August 2022.