Holds MA in Military Studies from King’s College, and PhD in Political Science from the London School of Economics, became a Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University; spent a year in Princeton; Director of the Center for Israeli Studies at Al-Quds University from 1997-2003; serves on the Advisory Board of the Jerusalem Quarterly File, writes in several journals like the Jerusalem Quarterly File, the Palestine-Israel Journal and The Journal of Palestine Studies; teaches Political Sciences at Al-Quds University.