My research agenda examines an overarching question: how do states and non-state actors construct, legitimize, and sustain power — through law, technology, and narrative — amid conditions of crisis, conflict, and transformation? A central concern of this agenda is how artificial intelligence stands to reconfigure these processes and dynamics, both by expanding the legal and technological architecture of state power and by transforming the online existence, organizational infrastructure, and messaging strategies of extremist and militant groups. I approach this question as a political sociologist working across the Middle East and North Africa, combining archival and historical-sociological methods with primary-source, bilingual content analysis. This agenda is grounded in more than a decade of research and analytic experience across academic, think tank, and NGO settings — from doctoral research on law and militarization to the analysis of militant propaganda ecosystems.

This question runs through three connected research strands:

• Authoritarian Legalism — how ruling regimes instrumentalize law and constitutional design to redefine state-society boundaries and entrench power, with a focus on Egypt’s post-2011 order.
• AI, Society, and Power — how artificial intelligence, technology, and digital surveillance are being embedded into legal and governance structures, extending state power into new technological terrain.
• Propaganda Analysis — how militant and jihadist organizations construct strategic narratives to build legitimacy, project threat, and shape perception across audiences.

I combine archival and historical-sociological methods with qualitative content analysis and open-source verification techniques. My research has appeared in Arab Law Quarterly, Foreign Affairs, and CPOST.