Dr. Imad Bachir obtained his B.A. in Library and Information Studies from Lebanese University in 1985. Afterwards, he joined the University of London and received his master’s degree in 1989 and his Ph.D. in 1995.
Bachir worked for Al-Hayat Arabic daily newspaper in London as Research Editor from 1988 until 1999. He began teaching at Lebanese University in 1996 and was appointed director of the Faculty of Information for two periods from 2002 until 2007 and then again from 2018 until 2021. In between, he worked as Director of Libraries at Qatar University from 2012 until 2017.
In January 2019, Bachir was made a member of the Scientific Council of the Higher Institute of Doctoral Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Lebanese University. From April 2021 he has served as the Dean of Libraries at the American University of Iraq-Baghdad (AUIB). In addition, he is currently the Professor of Library and Information Studies at Lebanese University and has been the Chairman of the MENA Regional Division Committee at IFLA since September 2021.