Researcher in the project »Jihadism in the Internet: The Internationalization of Violent Discourses in the World Wide Web«, funded by Gerda Henkel foundation

PhD dissertation in political science »The Jihad of Images - a political analysis of the audiovisual propaganda of Al Qaeda and affiliated groups«, Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po.), Paris

2004 - 2010 University teaching assignment at Sciences Po, Paris

1992 M. Phil in political sciences (DEA), »The Critique of Democracy by the Islamic Salvation Front in Algeria«, Sciences Po., Paris

1989 BA Honours in Politics and Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

1992 - 2008 editor in chief IP Production TV, Press Agency specialised on the Middle East and the Arab World, several international awards for political documentaries and reportages

Areas of Expertise:

Political Islam, Jihadism, Arab media, youth culture in the Arab world, Algeria, Egypt, Irak, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Islam in the EU and in the Balkan States