[3] He held teaching and research positions in universities in the Middle East, the US, and Europe, including the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, where he served as a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher,[4] and Harvard University, where, among other appointments, he was a postdoctoral fellow for two years with a project entitled "Artificial Nations?
He speaks Italian, English, Hebrew, Arabic and has a working knowledge of French, Ottoman Turkish, and Latin.
[11] Former MESA's President, Beth Baron, wrote that the book "will make an important mark on the field", while Brian A. Catlos (University of Colorado Boulder) contended that it provides "chronological continuation of much of the most interesting work being done in pre-modern Mediterranean Studies".
[11] His publications include also over 30 articles on leading academic journals such as British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies,[12] Mediterranean Politics,[13] Peace and Change,[14] Eurasian Studies,[15] New Middle Eastern Studies,[16] Passato e Presente,[17] Oriente Moderno,[18] and over 200 articles and policy papers on Al Jazeera,[19] Ha'aretz,[20] Al-Monitor,[21] Project Syndicate,[22] The Daily Star (Lebanon),[23] The National Interest,[24] The National,[25] Aspen,[26] Middle East Eye,[27] and other media outlets in 10 languages, in over 30 countries.
He is a board member of a number of academic journals, including Palgrave Communications,[28] Eurostudium,[29] Passato e Presente,[30] and frequently acts as a peer-reviewer for the European Research Council (ERC Consolidator Grant "The Study of the Human Past"), Cambridge University Press, International Affairs (Chatham House), and other institutions, publishing houses and journals.