Faculty member at department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University (Palestine), director of the Dignity Initiative. He served as director of Muwatin Institute for Democracy and Human Rights, director of the MA Programme in Democracy and Human Rights, co-Director of the Initiative on Judicial Independence and Human Dignity (a joint project with the University of Windsor – Canada), director of the Institute of Law, acting dean of the Faculty of Law and Public Administration (led its establishment), and chairperson for the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies.
His current research interests, embedded in the tradition of praxis, include democratisation, decolonisation and emancipation, the concept of dignity, the everyday, research ethics, political corruption, and populism.