He is a former Fulbright postdoctoral visiting scholar and a fellow at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (2012/2013). He is the co-editor and co-translator of Theatre from Medieval Cairo: the Ibn Daniyal Trilogy (2013) (Safi Mahfouz & Marvin Carlson) and Four Plays from Syria – Sa’dallah Wannous (2014) (Marvin Carlson & Safi Mahfouz) both books published by The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, at The Graduate Center CUNY. His research and teaching interests cover a wide range of topics including modern American literature, American canonical drama, American ethnic theaters, Arabic drama in translation, Middle Eastern literatures, world literature, comparative literature, literary theory, and contemporary poetics, postmodernism, ethnicity, diaspora, and post-colonialism.