From 2012 to 2015 he served as the acting-chair for the Department of Economics, later to become chair from 2015 to 2016. He is a published author in many journals including World Development, Ecological Economics, Journal of Economic Methodology, the Review of Social Economics, among others. He also contributed to various policy reports including UNDP, ESCWA, and ILO reports. Dr. Mabsout has a PhD from Radboud University Nijmegen, MA from the University of Sussex, and BA from AUB.