He is Associate Professor of Middle East history at California State University San Marcos (CSUSM), an adjunct faculty at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California, and a visiting faculty at John Cabot University in Rome. He obtained his doctorate in Modern History at University of Oxford completing a thesis on the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. He is co-author of Iraq’s Armed Forces: An Analytical History (Routledge, 2008), The Modern History of Iraq (Westview 2017) and A Concise History of the Middle East (Westview 2018).
