His publications include 'Mapping the Secular Mind: Modernity’s Quest for a Godless Utopia' (London, 2013), and his Arabic translations include Zygmunt Bauman's 'Modernity and the Holocaust' (Cairo, 2014), and 'Liquid Modernity' (Beirut, 2016). Dr. Ali had postdoctoral fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin and Humboldt University of Berlin. His current research focuses on the Arab receptions of the critical theory of the Frankfurt School since the 1960s.