Tag: Democracy
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Who Gets to Define the Words
August’s militant propaganda reveals a widening contest over who possesses the authority to define hijra, jihād, political legitimacy, and the boundaries of Islamic rule.
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Five Shocking Truths About American Democracy
Democracy doesn’t usually collapse with a bang. Levitsky and Ziblatt show how routine political moves—when losing becomes intolerable—can quietly turn erosion into “normal” politics.
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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.
