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Mohamed Elgohari
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I am a sociologist, policy researcher, and scholar-practitioner whose work bridges critical sociological inquiry with applied policy analysis.
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New in @foreignaffairs.com: I discuss how Palestinian opinion shifted since Oct 7—rally, correction, re-pluralization—and what a felt cease-fire plus Palestinian-led governance could change next.
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Are Palestinians Ready to Shed Hamas?
How other factions might gain ground.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Read @elgohari.com on the arc of Palestinian public opinion before, during, and after the war in Gaza:
Are Palestinians Ready to Shed Hamas?
How other factions might gain ground.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Jihadist outlets are turning Sudan into a hinge between three countries:
🇪🇬 Egypt
🇱🇾 Libya
🇦🇪 UAE
AQAP and ISIS use the same conflict to blame one, mobilize another, and bypass borders altogether. The article walks through how.
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Sudan in Transnational Jihadist Storytelling
As Sudan’s war deepens and al-Fāshir becomes shorthand for unchecked atrocity, AQAP and the Islamic State are working to recast the conflict as a “forgotten wound” and an “open arena” for jihad.…
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November 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Published a new analysis on how AQAP and ISIS are narrating the Sudan war with Egypt, Libya, and the UAE in mind.

Read: elgohari.com/2025/11/16/s...

#Sudan #Egypt #Libya #UAE #JihadistPropaganda #MENA #SecurityStudies #Counterterrorism
Sudan in Transnational Jihadist Storytelling
As Sudan’s war deepens and al-Fāshir becomes shorthand for unchecked atrocity, AQAP and the Islamic State are working to recast the conflict as a “forgotten wound” and an “open arena” for jihad.…
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November 17, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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No Gray Zone in Khorasan
Fresh analysis of ISKP’s The Divided Tents of Disbelief and Islam. The publication sorts the world into two camps, brands rivals apostate, and sets conditions for escalation. I map the doctrine, audience strategy, and indicators to track next.
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No Gray Zone in Khorasan
ISKP resurrects a hard binary—īmān vs. kufr—to delegitimize the Taliban, sort communities, and lower barriers to violence.
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November 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Patience, Signs, and Small Wars elgohari.com/2025/10/27/p...
Patience, Signs, and Small Wars
Al-Nabāʾ 518 frames patience as doctrine and repetition as strategy, stitching dispersed, low-cost operations into a campaign of attrition; the messaging prioritizes convoy interdiction, mobility t…
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October 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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New analysis: al-Nabāʾ 517 — doctrine over diplomacy
This week’s issue frames the Sharm al-Shaykh ceasefire track as collaboration and ties a portable veto on “peace” to dispersed, low-cost violence.

Full analysis: elgohari.com/2025/10/20/p...
Peace as Betrayal, Endurance as Strategy
Al-Nabāʾ 517 pairs a veto on diplomacy with an Africa-led operations rhythm and Syrian attrition, reframing “peace infrastructure” as a target and complicating paths to expand Gulf normalization.…
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October 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Strategic Narratives and the Battlefield of Perception: Hamas’s Bilingual Propaganda elgohari.com/2025/08/21/s...
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 campa…
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October 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Why I violated the IHRA definition of antisemitism
url:https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/why-i-violated-ihra-definition-antisemitism?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR64TosOrWnrLpz2o8tkRZYWE4E4x8u78GQZ4Wc1t9CTmz9Gim927ecA4iehmQ_aem_qAfGP3UgVdmN2hIuadSC7A
April 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM