He later took positions as Writer in Residence at Meadow Brook Theatre (MBT) in Michigan and Editor in Chief of ARABICA magazine,[6] the leading nationally distributed Arab-American publication[7] with a certified readership of over 100,000 readers.[8] Subsequently, Alrawi supervised aid and development projects in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, for the Canadian Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society, where he was Director of International Programs, the US-Arab Economic Forum,[9] where he was Executive Director and the World Bank as Communications Advisor and Manager of External Affairs for the Middle East and North Africa.