[1] He joined Yarmouk University's faculty in the eighties, first in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and then as a founding member of the Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, becoming full professor thereafter, in 1993.
program in Cultural Resource Management at Yarmouk in the late 1990s with support from USAID, and he has advised a number of undergraduate and graduate dissertations.
[2] Kafafi has also held leadership positions at Hashemite University, served as president of the Jordanian Club of von Humboldt Fellows, and is a member of the board of the organization Friends of Archaeology and Heritage (FoAH).
[1] He has served as a leading voice in the development of numerous higher education institutions in Jordan (Petra's Scientific Committee, Al Al-Bayt University Museum, Jordan's Ministry of Higher Education, the Dead Sea Scrolls Committee) and even elsewhere in the world (such as King Saud University in Riyadh).
[3] Kafafi's research interests largely revolve around the Neolithic period, but also cover the Chalcolithic, Bronze, and Iron Ages.