Professor Nasser is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, teaching Arabic literature and Islamic civilizations courses. His previous posting was as a University Lecturer in Classical Arabic studies at the University of Cambridge (UK), in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

Nasser studied Chemistry (1996-99) at the American University of Beirut after which he majored in Arabic language and literature. In 2003 he started his PhD at Harvard University in Arabic and Islamic studies under the supervision of Wolfhart Heinrichs, completing his PhD in 2011. In 2008, he worked at Yale University as a lector of Arabic and from 2009 to 2012 he was a senior lector of Arabic and the coordinator of the modern Arabic program at Yale University. From 2013 to 2016, Nasser was University Lecturer in Classical Arabic studies at the University of Cambridge (UK).