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studied English language and literature at Cairo University and started his postgraduate studies in literary theory in 2002. He received his Ph.D. from Cairo University in 2008 with a dissertation on The Cognitive Mapping of Modernity and Postmodernity, exploring the convergence of Jewish and Islamic critiques of modernity and postmodernity with a particular emphasis on the contributions of the Polish-born British sociologist Zygmunt Bauman (the author of Modernity and the Holocaust) and the Arab Egyptian intellectual Abdelwahab Elmessiri (the editor of the Arabic Encyclopedia of the Jews, Judaism and Zionism). Ali’s research interests fall within the scope of literary theory and critical theories of modernity. He has published several articles and reviews in Arabic, including The Metaphorical Approach to Modernity in the Writings of Abdelwahab Elmessiri and Zygmunt Bauman, in: Abdelwahab Elmessiri in the Eyes of his Friends and Critics. Dar Al Fikr: Damascus (2007), Elmessiri and Western Modernity, in: Al Jazirah Cultural Magazine. 9/4/2007 G. Issue No 194, and Yahuda Bauer: Rethinking the Holocaust, A Review, in: Weghat Nazar. Cairo: September 2007.