He completed his PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008.
He has translated a number of books by the Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, including Khufu's Wisdom.
[2] He is currently writing the first full-length biography of Mahfouz to appear in any language, under contract from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Stock served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic and Middle East Studies at Drew University in 2010-11.
[3] As of August 2015, Stock serves as an instructor of Arabic at Louisiana State University.