Abdel is a director for the Bangsamoro Transition Authority Parliament. As a humanitarian and development worker, he previously served as Coordinator of Legal Issues for the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process, as Humanitarian Affairs Assistant for Tropical Storm Washi Response at UN OCHA, and as a Technical Assistant for Super Typhoon Haiyan Recovery at WHO Philippines.

An attorney teaching law since 2016, Abdel has significant experience and training in human rights, specifically minority rights and international humanitarian law, which began when he worked for the state’s regional human rights commission as head of Provincial Office in Lanao Del Sur based in Marawi City in the now Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Recently, he reconnected with his roots in the region for two projects to strengthen leadership capacity in legal reform and to generate context-specific policies for accessible and relevant maternal care services with the goal of reducing maternal mortality in the region.