He received his PhD in translation and comparative literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 2006. He has published on translation, comparative literature, and intercultural communication. He is a consultant editor on The Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, Third Edition, and is a member of the editorial board of Forum: International Journal of Interpretation and Translation, John Benjamins. He is the author of Translation and the Manipulation of Difference: Arabic Literature in Nineteenth-Century England, published by St. Jerome in 2009.