Biography

‎Professor of Security and Military Studies and founder of the Critical Security Studies Programs at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (Qatar). He is the Director of the Strategic Studies Unit at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Security and Strategy at the University of Exeter (UK), and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Elko Kucheriev Foundation for Democratic Initiatives (Ukraine).‎ ‎He specializes in analyzing how relatively small states and weaker parties are fighting without states; analyzing wars and battles; combat and military effectiveness; operational adaptations and innovations of regular and irregular forces; analyzing certain weapon systems; countering insurgency and terrorism; and collective transitions from violence to peace.‎ ‎He is the author of How to Fight the Islamic State: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt" (Edinburgh University Press, 2021 – translated into Arabic by the Arab Center in 2022, and in Ukrainian by Kyiv University Press in 2023) and "Transformations of Armed Islamic Movements" (Routledge, 2009); and the editor of From Arms to Peace: The Collective Transformations of Armed Movements (University of Edinburgh Press, 2021; translated into Arabic by the Arab Center in 2022, and into Ukrainian by Kiev University Press in 2024).‎