Based in Washington, D.C.
Also serves as co-director of the SAIS Global Politics and Religion Initiative; tenured at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris; directs the Islam in the West Program at Harvard University; as the Minerva Chair at the National Defense University, is conducting research on Islam and democratization in the context of the Arab Spring for a forthcoming book; has held multiple professorships at Columbia, Harvard and Johns Hopkins universities; coordinates two major Web resources on the topic of contemporary Islam and politics: Islamopedia Online and Euro-Islam.info; Ph.D., political science, University of Aix-en-Provence, France
Muslims in the West After 9/11: Religion, Politics and Law (2009); Encyclopedia of Islam in the United States, editor (2007); When Islam and Democracy Meet: Muslims in Europe and in the United States (2006); European Muslims and the Secular State (2005)
