Writing

“Escaping the Iron Cage of the Present: Chronopolitics as Liberation Praxis in Islamic Movements.”The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Muslim Liberation Theologies. Edited by Emin Poljarevic and Ivan Ejub Kostic, 132–145. Wiley, 2026.On the same theme: “Escaping Presentism”, a paper at the BRAIS annual conference, Cambridge, 2025.SourceThe book at Wiley

Broken Bonds: The Existential Crisis of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, 2013–22With Amr ElAfifi and Noha Ezzat. The Century Foundation, 2023.The Arabic edition, «الأواصر الممزقة», was translated by Hassan Hassani.About this workSourcePDF, EnglishPDF, Arabic

«نحو عقد اجتماعي جديد: مسارات التفاوض في مصر الثورة»In Yawmiyyat al-Thawra al-Misriyya: Yanayir 2011, Al Jazeera Papers 24. Al Jazeera Centre for Studies and Arab Scientific Publishers, 2011. In Arabic.SourceAt the Al Jazeera Centre for StudiesContents at Neelwafurat

Wherever They Go: Transnational Repression and the Targeting of Egyptians AbroadEgyptian Human Rights Forum, 2026.A database of 84 cases across 17 countries. Launched in Brussels, February 2026.About this workSourceReport in English (PDF)Report in Arabic (PDF)

“Security Forces Dealt with Them”: Suspicious Killings and Extrajudicial Executions by Egyptian Security ForcesHuman Rights Watch, 2021.Source

“No One Cared He Was a Child”: Egyptian Security Forces’ Abuse of Children in DetentionHuman Rights Watch, 2020.Source

“Freedom of Religion or Belief in Qatar: Constitutional Architecture, Practice and Feasible Reforms.”Policy Brief Series No. 189. Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher (TOAEP), 3 October 2025.SourceIn the Legal Tools Database

“Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Faces an Existential Crisis.”New Lines Magazine, 2 March 2023.Source

“The Turkish Future of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.”The Century Foundation, 2020.Source

“Strong Organization, Weak Ideology: Muslim Brotherhood Trajectories in Egyptian Prisons since 2013.”Arab Reform Initiative, 2019.Source

“The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in 2016: Scenarios and Recommendations.”DGAPkompakt 9. German Council on Foreign Relations, 2016.SourcePDF

“The Brotherhood’s Post-Pacifist Approach.”Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2015.Source

How Trump Can Make Things Worse in the Middle EastThe Century Foundation, 18 November 2024. He wrote two sections: “About That Clash of Civilizations” and “Isolationist in Name Only?”.Source

Roundtable: Generation Iraq: The Iraq War’s Legacy of HarmThe Century Foundation, 1 March 2023. He wrote the section “No Consent of the Governed”.Source

A World Still Disfigured by 9/11The Century Foundation, 1 September 2021. He wrote the section “The Betrayal of Rights”.Source