 He received his first honorary high-school degree in Life Science in 2007 followed by a short course in Film Making and Fine Arts before he obtained his second honorary master's degree in architecture from the Polytechnic University of Milan in 2014.In 2013 he has been selected to be one of the designers for the EXPO 2015.In 2012 he was discovered as model in Milan where he appeared on Vogue and posed for the world’s most renown brands such as Roberto Cavalli, Ermanno Scervino, Moscot, to shortly become the first international male model of Arabic roots.