Author: Mohamed Elgohari
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Reclassifying the Battlefield: Inside ISKP’s Delegitimization Playbook
ISKP’s Pashto pamphlet weaponizes doctrine to recode Taliban militancy as jāhiliyyah and claim a monopoly on legitimate jihad through bayʿah to a caliph. This analysis unpacks that authority-first logic, its recruitment function, and the border-collapsing frame that treats Afghanistan and Pakistan as one “apostate system.”
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Conversation with GMU Sociology Alumnus: Mohamed Elgohari
Talk: From Legalism to Algorithmic Control: Digital Authoritarianism, Legal Instruments, and the AI-Enhanced Surveillance State in the MENA RegionHost: Movement Engaged Hub, George Mason University I will outline how authoritarian legality in MENA has evolved into data-driven governance: laws and emergency statutes enable surveillance infrastructures; algorithmic decision systems translate political priorities into “neutral” procedures; and…
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Reflections on MENA Research Development Workshop
At the APSA MENA Research Development Group (RDG) during the APSA Annual Meeting in Vancouver, I presented From Legalism to Algorithmic Control, a theory of how law and code co-produce automated governance.
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A Path Leading to Failure
Egypt’s post-2011 rulers—from SCAF to Morsi to the 2013 roadmap—misread the uprising’s core demands for bread, freedom, and social justice, preserving coercive structures and neoliberal policy while recasting dissent as “terrorism,” a trajectory that ensures failure.
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Egypt’s Ultras: No More Politics
Swinging between politics and football, the Egyptian “Ultras” football fans have spent the two years since the beginning of the 25 January Revolution trying to discover, redefine, and highlight their collective identity as youths who came together to express their love for sport in general, and for their chosen football clubs in particular. Before the…
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Strategic Narratives and the Battlefield of Perception: Hamas’s Bilingual Propaganda
Hamas has perfected a form of combat that unfolds not on the battlefield but across screens and social‐media feeds. Since its October 7 operation, the movement has run two distinct propaganda campaigns—one in English for Western audiences and one in Arabic for regional supporters—that function as dual prongs of its strategic arsenal. By tailoring its…
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