Sami Khatib is a professor of political and social aesthetics at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. Most recently, he researched critical theory from the Global South at the German Orient Institute in Beirut. Since 2006, he has taught media philosophy, aesthetics, and art theory at several universities, including the American University of Beirut, the American University in Cairo, Leuphana University Lüneburg, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and the Free University of Berlin. His research interests include critical theory, aesthetic theory, and continental philosophy.