He has conducted fieldwork in Egypt, India and the USA. He is the author of Anthropology and Mass Communication: Myth and Media in the New Millennium (Berghahn, 2003) and co-author of International Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Issues (Westview, 2008). He has published articles in Anthropology Today, Anthropological Quarterly, Childhood, Contemporary Islam, New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia and Social Anthropology as well as chapters in the books At War With Words (Walter de Gruyter, 2003), Media Anthropology (Sage, 2005), Folklore/Cinema (Utah State University Press, 2007) and The Anthropology of News and Journalism (Indiana University Press, 2010).