- 2016-2021 - Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Institut für Islamwissenschaft und Neuere Orientalische Philologie of the University of Bern (Bern)
- 2014-2016 - Teaching Fellow, Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts & Sciences (CILAS) (Cairo)
- 2014 - Fellow, Rechtskulturen - Forum Transregionale Studien, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Berlin)
- 2012-2014 - Assistant Professor of History and International Studies, North Carolina State University (Raleigh)
- 2012-2010 - Fellow, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University (Cambridge), Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
- 2012 - Ph.D., Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto (Toronto)
- 2003 - M.A., Middle East and Mediterranean Studies (Major in Arab Studies), National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations - INALCO (Paris)
- 2002-2001 - Year Long Intensive Program of Advanced Arabic (720 h), Department of Modern Arabic Teaching – DEAC (Cairo)
- 2001 - B.A., History and International Studies, Sciences Po Paris (Paris)
- 2000 - Summer Intensive Program of Advanced Arabic (100 h), Saint Joseph University (Beirut)
Supervision of MA and BA theses:
- Mirjam Stutz, „Vom Relevant-Sein und Relevant-Werden: Die Veränderung der sprachlichen Ordnung betreffend Rückkehrenden aus Gebieten des ,Islamischen Staatesʻ und deren Bedeutungszuschreibung durch den parlamentarischen Diskurs“ (MA-thesis, Spring 2020)
- Jasmine Benhaida, “Young Swiss Muslims: Claiming Space, Community, and Participation” (MA-thesis, Fall 2019)
- Julien Deferrard, “A rental deed of the sijillāt al-mahkamāt in Damascus in 1880: A way of analyzing the ownership right and the construction of the Ottoman local administration” (MA-thesis, Fall 2019)
- Andrea Birrer, “Egyptian ‘youth’ beyond ‘peril and promise’: Classificatory struggles in counter-revolutionary times” (BA-thesis, Feb. 2020)
- Vivienne Schommer, „The Role of Civil Society Organisations in Environmental Education in Lebanon: Towards a Critical Understanding” (BA-thesis, Feb. 2020)
- Jasmin Beurer, „Abgewiesene muslimische Frauen und Männer im Kanton Zürich – ein Leben am Rande der Existenz“ (BA-thesis, Fall 2019)