Mohamed-Ali Adraoui

Professor of International Relations/Middle East History and Politics

[Nader Hashemi @naderalihashemi]

Essential Read on the Future of Gaza

As Envisioned by the "Board of Peace" & its key architects: Jared Kushner & Tony Blair

Kudos to @mrmhawish for this excellent analysis and reporting

"Gaza, as planned, will be a peripheral appendage to Greater Israel, a captive population toiling for low wages and a meager existence, following a pattern that has long been established in the West Bank. I asked Sara Roy, an associate at Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies, what the U.S. and Israel hoped to accomplish with their development plan. 'It’s about eliminating a Palestinian presence in Gaza,' she said, 'eliminating Gaza as the center of resistance, and about ending the whole Palestinian political project to which Gaza is the key'."

https://t.co/ZjhqspS7tN

@MouinRabbani @MacaesBruno @sarahleah1 @mehdirhasan @elgindy_ @owenjonesjourno

[Nader Hashemi @naderalihashemi]

Marc Lynch reviews @weizman_eyal new book on Gaza's genocide.

"The evidence, collected by Weizman and his team from audios, videos, and interviews and subjected to rigorous analysis, is overwhelming. Their efforts produced the “Cartography of Genocide,” an interactive and constantly evolving digital map that details “an organized and designed campaign to destroy Palestinian life in Gaza.” By the end of the book, the question is less whether Israel’s actions should be regarded as genocide and more what to make of a genocidal process that seeks to not only remove a people but to fundamentally and permanently transform the land."

https://t.co/0kwmkRSaY8

@bartov_omer @mehdirhasan @sarahleah1

[Nader Hashemi @naderalihashemi]

James Zogby on the enduring legacy of John L. Esposito (1940-2026)

https://t.co/1IaH6WG3cb

@jjz1600 @mehdirhasan @jricole @Shanfaraa

[Nader Hashemi @naderalihashemi]

The passing of John L. Esposito is a painful loss at a time of growing division

https://t.co/Lj4vLsOnp3

@AmiraElghawaby @bridgeinit @Shanfaraa

[Mohamed-Ali Adraoui @maadraoui]

The Legacy of John Esposito https://t.co/2iJSoZLAED via @YouTube

[Nader Hashemi @naderalihashemi]

Remembering John L. Esposito (1940-2026)

https://t.co/yj5Mn0wgUg

@mehdirhasan @marcowenjones @jricole @jkeaneSDN @Shanfaraa @Khalilalanani @aalodah

[Jonathan AC Brown @JonathanACBrown]

A great scholar and mentor, John Esposito (1940-2026), has returned to the Creator. It’s just starting to hit me now how big a void he leaves in so many lives.

There is so much to say about John, not least of which is that I owe him so much of my career. But here I’ll say that he was a great American, in the best sense of the word. His commitment to freedom of religion and free speech was instinctual and abiding. He never wavered from advocating for people being able to live their religion in public life or against the state imposing itself on people’s private moral lives. Bigotry and ignorance of the other were demons he loathed at his core. So far, so easy. But he was a rarity in that he - again, instinctively - knew it was wrong to condemn others just because the mob was shouting for it, and he stood heroically by those people the state sought to crush in its terrifying gears of accusation and toxification. I have so many memories of him, and he’d tell (and retell) so many stories, but one always comes to mind. In 2010 I was getting married to my wife and moving to Georgetown U to become his colleague. I told him on the phone how some people had warned me about marrying my wife because of how badly the government and media had attacked her family. They warned me it would harm my career. He told me that kind of comment was “unAmerican.”

May God grant his soul mercy and bestow ease on his family. May God guide us to impact the world as positively as he did.

[Nader Hashemi @naderalihashemi]

I'm sad to announce that John L. Esposito passed today due to complications from heart surgery. He was 86 years old.

John’s humanity and ethical decency reflected the best traditions of the United States and the American people.

He demonstrated a deeply empathy for the struggles of the people in the Global South, especially in the Arab-Islamic world. He sought to understand and interpret religious politics not from the perspective of US Empire but rather from the vantage point of the downtrodden, the occupied and the oppressed.

His Italian-American background and his strong Catholic roots allowed John to interpret the Islamic tradition from the perspective of similar religious tradition (Catholicism) that had deep historical roots and like Islam today, also struggled to reconcile its normative ethical claims with the demands of modernity.

John was an early and courageous scholar who challenged Orientalists misrepresentations of Islam and Muslims. His scholarship created room for understanding in place of prejudice, and his intellectual insights and generosity left a lasting imprint on generations of students and colleagues.

In reflecting on John Esposito’s legacy, I’m reminded of an observation by Edmund Burke III. Commenting the work of the late Marshall G.S. Hodgson, author of "The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History of a World Civilization," Burke noted that Hodgson, like Esposito, refused to view Islam as the “other.” Instead, he understood the Islamic tradition as “a venture alongside others that marked human efforts to bring about a just and moral world.”

When John retired from Georgetown University, we assembled this short video to honor his legacy.

https://t.co/TSFU1Mg2OC

@mehdirhasan @jricole @Shanfaraa

[Robert Malley @Rob_Malley]

This appears to be the best summary of the state of US-Iran negotiations on the eve of the war - and the most telling description of the lack of understanding on the US side

https://t.co/4kYHCNEDRl

[Fawaz Gerges @FawazGerges]

I spoke with @CNN this morning to explain why the American-Israeli War on Iran is spiraling and why the underlying premises have been proven false.

https://t.co/BN1u3heAZB

[Mohamed-Ali Adraoui @maadraoui]

https://t.co/2tnb4ughKk

Our new piece with Hamza Meddeb: "The Tragedy of Middle Eastern Politics", just published with MH Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center

[ROLA ALKHATIB رولا الخطيب @RALOUL82]

أودعكم اليوم بآخر ظهور لي على شاشة الحدث وأنا كلي امتنان لمتابعي هذه الشاشة ولإدارتها وزملائي فيها.. سأعود لمقاعد الدراسة وتحضير الدكتوراة.. دعواتكم لي وعلى أمل أن نلتقي دوما على الحب

[Mohamed-Ali Adraoui @maadraoui]

My book Understanding Salafism reviewed by the Islamic Literary Society https://t.co/spS1RArI9x

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

https://t.co/RdmklVJd8A

[Abier @abierkhatib]

To all TV hosts and reporters: thinking of interviewing @FranceskAlbs without doing your homework? Good luck, she doesn’t leave crumbs 💀

[Saeed Ziad | سعيد زياد @saeedziad]

هؤلاء ليسوا حجيجاًً يطوفون حول البيت الحرام، وإنما مجوّعين يطوفون حول شاحنة طحين !!

#غزه_تموت_جوعاً يا مجرمين
#غزه_تباد_وتحرق يا قتلة
#افتحوا_معبر_رفح

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

A famine expert on Gaza: "There is no case since WWII of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled." He notes the Israeli judge on the International Court of Justice agreed with the order to provide humanitarian aid. that Israel ignored. https://t.co/w0Z5vC7nIV

[Munther Isaac منذر اسحق @MuntherIsaac]

Children CHILDREN are starved to death in Gaza!