I am immensely fortunate to work as a faculty member in the Department of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. I also have the great honor of serving as an Associate Editor of the Review of Middle East Studies and as Book Review Editor of the Journal of Arabian Studies. Previously, I had the good fortune of working at Zentrum Moderner Orient, Freie Universität Berlin, SOAS, University of London, and King Saud University. I also had the privilege of being a visiting scholar at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies. I am interested in the history of science and in the history of the Middle East. I am forever thankful to I.B. Tauris and Springer for publishing the following six books of mine: 1. Historiography in Saudi Arabia. 2. Researching Biology and Evolution in the Gulf States. 3. Space Science and the Arab World. 4. Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life. 5. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Astronomy. 6. Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life. My current book project is a history of teaching science with science fiction. I am deeply grateful to a number of organizations for generously supporting my research. They include Qatar Foundation, Gerda Henkel Stiftung, the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, the Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah Foundation, the Society for Arabian Studies, the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, and Stiftung Hans. Finally, I sincerely thank my family, friends, colleagues, students, teachers and mentors for their invaluable guidance, encouragement and assistance.