Provost and President of the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, where he previously served in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities (SOSH) as Head of the Politics and International Relations Program at SOSH (2015-2017), then as Professor of Politics and Dean (2017-2020). Before that, El-Affendi worked at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster (1997-2015). He was also Visiting Fellow and Professor at the Christian Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway (1995 and 2003), the University of Oxford (1990), Northwestern University (2002), the University of Cambridge (2010-2012), as well as the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2008). El-Affendi has delivered keynote speeches and lectures at universities on five continents, including most major US and UK universities. His most recent publications include Genocidal Nightmares: Narratives of Insecurity and the Logic of Mass Atrocities (Bloomsbury, 2015) and After the Arab Revolutions: Decentring Democratic Transition Theory (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), co-edited with Khalil Al Anani.