He received his PhD from the Free University of Berlin and post doctorate from the University of Chicago. He has over 15 years’ experience in teaching and developing curricula of history and archaeology as he taught until 2010 at the University of Toronto, and previously at the University of Chicago and Montclair State University, New Jersey. In addition, he co-founded Al-Aqsa University in Gaza in 1991 and the Palestinian Department of Antiquities, Gaza, in 1994.