Lecturer of Political Science and International Law at the Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Suez University, and a visiting professor at both the Military Academy for Graduate Studies and Strategy and the Egyptian Military Academy. He holds a BA in Political Science and a LL.B. from Cairo University, and an MA and PhD from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at the same university. His research interests range from international security issues, the use of force in international relations, the international legal regime for counterterrorism, and contemporary geopolitical interactions in the Middle East.