Professor of Sociology at the National Center for Social and Criminological Research in Cairo, specializing in the sociology of culture. He previously won the Sawiris Prize for Literary Criticism in 2018. He has numerous research contributions published in peer-reviewed academic journals on extremist ideology, youth culture, Arabic children's literature, reception theories, language policy, and women's issues. He has also translated numerous works in his field of expertise, most notably several works by Zygmunt Bauman.