Dr. Khatib is an assistant professor in the Conflict Management and Humanitarian Action program at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. He completed his PhD in political science in 2018 at Humboldt University with a thesis on the relationship between identity perception and reconciliation in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict. He has been a post-doctoral researcher at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. He has published articles in the Journal of Peace Research, International Journal of Conflict Management, and Citizenship Studies, among other publications.