Prior to joining the University of Amsterdam he was a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia. He works across the fields of Critical Fashion Studies, Queer Studies, and Media Studies. His research investigates how fashion has been used across various contexts, with a focus on the Mediterranean and the MENA region, to shape spaces of political expression and community formation. He is particularly interested in how fashion practices (such as design, photography, and short films) can function as affective forms of critique that destabilize the colonial, heterosexual, and capitalist fantasies embedded in the western imagination, and ultimately carve out alternative aesthetic imaginaries. He is currently at work on his first monograph, on queer and feminist fashion in Palestine/Israel.