Director of the American University of Beirut's Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, and Associate Professor of Politics. Formerly Researcher at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington DC;Professor of Middle-East Politics at Sciences-Po Paris;Consultant with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs;Senior Fellow at the Académie Diplomatique Internationale in France. Member of the Board of the Arab Thought Forum, and of the Editorial Committee of Revue Esprit.