Asmaa Elgamal
Asmaa Elgamal is a writer and academic based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has a doctorate in international development and planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a postdoctoral scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. She writes about military politics, colonial history and spatial planning both within and beyond the Middle East and North Africa.
Latest from Asmaa Elgamal
The Imagined Intelligence Seducing the Military
A genre of speculative fiction referred to as FICINT, a portmanteau of “fiction” and “intelligence,” is gaining traction in the world of military intelligence. Yet despite its claims to realism, its use of emotion is at the heart of its ability to influence the agenda.
A Female Muslim Scholar in France Discovers a Past That’s Present
In my role as a doctoral scholar at MIT, a journey to the government archives in the French city of Nantes felt like a chance to discover the hidden history of the conquest of Morocco. But I found my own identity followed me everywhere.