Jamal R. Nassar is Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at California State University, San Bernardino.
Afterwards, he joined the faculty at Illinois State University, where he served as chair of the Department of Politics and Government until accepting the post at CSUSB in 2007.
[citation needed] Nassar has chaired national and international conferences on the Middle East, has addressed the United Nations on the Palestine question, and has been a consultant or expert witness in court cases.
[citation needed] Nassar was the editor of Arab Studies Quarterly from 1990–94.
[2] He remains on the editorial board of this and other scholarly journals.