I am an academic in interdisciplinary areas of expertise: Journalism, Peace Studies, and Middle East. I published quantitative and qualitative research in highly ranked journals, such as International Journal of Communication (Q1), New Media and Society (Q1), and Global Media and Communication (Q2). I authored the book: Al-Jazeera’s Double Standards in the Arab Spring, published by the A class Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (Springer) in 2022. From 2014 to 2019, I taught Media and Communication courses at the University of Sydney (USYD) and University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia. Since 2020, I have been affiliated with Ahlia University (AU) in Bahrain as a full-time Assistant Professor in the Mass Communication and Public Relations Department. I have supervised undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations and taught several Media courses. In early 2023, I moved to Taiwan to join the Graduate Institute of Journalism at National Taiwan University as a Visiting Scholar. In January 2024, I have been appointed as the Chairperson of Mass Communication and Public Relations Department at Ahlia University ( in Bahrain). I completed my PhD in the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney (USYD) in 2017. I hold a Master’s degree, with Distinction, in Journalism from the University of Wollongong (UOW) in Australia (2010 – 2011).