Meis Al-Kaisi's areas of research and teaching interest are textual analysis of Classical Arabic Sufi texts, Islam/Sufism and media, and Islamic manuscript tradition. While pursuing her PhD, she taught Arabic at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, for two years while pursuing her research, and subsequently worked for the military attachés of Qatar and Oman in London as an academic advisor for their military students in the UK. She joined Bernard Quaritch (Antiquarian Booksellers) to specialize in Arabic/Islamic manuscripts before pursuing her career in academia at AUS.