Category: Authoritarianism and Legalism
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From Legalism to Algorithmic Control — Presentation Overview
On October 10, 2025, I delivered an interactive workshop at George Mason University’s Movement Engaged Hub. The talk presented a research project in progress on how AI systems are being embedded into governance structures, augmenting state infrastructural power. The central claim is that legality and computation are becoming co-constitutive infrastructures of governance. Rather than treating…
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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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