Vice-President of the British Association of Teachers of Arabic
Professor Daniel Newman's Recognition (10)
Visiting Professor, UCLA
AHRC Peer Review College member
Member of Council, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (2009-2012)
co-recipient of World Award of the President of the Republic of Tunisia for Islamic Studies
Member of the Executive Committee of the University Council of Modern Languages (UCML) [2008-12]
Visiting Professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (Doha, Qatar)
Member of the Scientific Council of the European Institute for the History and Cultures of Food (Institut Européen dl’Histoire et des Cultures de l’Alimentation, IEHCA)
Member of the Editorial Board of Food&History
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society