He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2009. His current research focuses on the transformation of the practices of political critique in and of the Arab world and the changing role of intellectuals in the second half of the twentieth century. More specifically, it investigates the end of the radical moment of the fifties and sixties and its implications in terms of the altered political subjectivities of intellectuals, the transformation in the political use of theory, and the question of the historiography of the Arab world. His publications appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Third Word Quarterly, and the European Journal of Social Theory among other journals.