He is professor of methodology and creative writing, and director of Economia, HEM research center in Rabat.
His book Le métier d’intellectuel : dialogues avec quinze penseurs du Maroc(The intellectual profession: interviews with 15 Moroccan thinkers),co-authored with Fadma Aït Mous, won the Prix Grand Atlas, Morocco’s most prestigious book prize in 2015.
He has been appointed in 2019 as member of CODESRIA (Council supporting social sciences in Africa) scientific committee.
His main interests as a scholar are about media, culture and various ways of mediation between arts and research.
Besides analyzing relationships between symbolic expressions and institutions, he has been working for the last ten years on various ways of indiscipline through art fabric, knowledge production and public sphere interactions.