His work has been featured by Voice of America, Tagesspiegel, O Globo, Near East Quarterly, and other international publications, and he has worked in media and development in Armenia with several civil society organizations. Previously, he was trained as a lawyer in Syria, and was an O’Donnell Visiting Scholar in Global Studies at Whitman College and a fellow at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. He served as a Eurasia analyst for Freedom of the Press.