Khaled Fouad Allam teaches Sociology of the Muslim world and History and Institutions of the Islamic countries at the Universites of Trieste, Urbino and at the Stanford University of Florence. He has been an expert consultant for the European Union on issues regarding Islam and immigration and on the relation between citizenship and religious identity at the European Council in Strasbourg. He has been a Deputy at the Chamber of Deputies for the Italian Parliament (XV legislature) and a member of the Commission for Constitutional and Internal Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies, presided over by Luciano Violante. From november 2008 expert consultant of the President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament for intercultural matters and the dialogue among religions. He is a member of the Committee of editorial Staff of the magazine “MARS -  Le Monde Arabe dans la Recherche Scientifique”, published in Paris by the Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA). He collaborated with various weekly magazines and with the daily newspaper La Stampa, and has been an editorialist for La Repubblica. Now he is editorialist for the Osservatore Romano, the Holy See daily newspaper.  He is a cultural adviser for the Book Fair of Turin.