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Dr. Alexei Sisulu Abrahams
Assistant Professor
Educational Qualifications
PhD in Economics
Master’s in Economics
Entity
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Biography
Dr Alexei Abrahams blends social science and computer science methods to study asymmetric conflict and information warfare, with particular application to the Palestinian struggle. He is the author of Social Media Exposed, an upcoming book on how to archive and analyze social media data in the public interest. He is also the author of numerous research papers, published at outlets such as the Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Political Science Research & Methods, and the International Journal of Communications. Professor Abrahams holds a PhD in Economics from Brown University, and before joining HBKU was the digital research team lead at McGill University’s Canadian Media Ecosystem Observatory.
PhD in Economics
Brown University, US
2015
Master’s in Economics
Brown University, US
2010
B.S. in Mathematics & Economics
Syracuse University, US
2008
- Asymmetric conflict
- Information warfare
- The Palestinian struggle
- Adversarial archiving methods
Assistant Professor
College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2025 - Present
Digital Research Lead
Media Ecosystem Observatory, McGill University
2023 - 2025
Research Fellow
Technology and Social Change Project, Harvard Kennedy School
2020 - 2023
Research Fellow
Citizen Lab, University of Toronto
2018 - 2020
Postdoctoral Fellow
Niehaus Centre for Globalization and Governance, Princeton University
2017 - 2018
Postdoctoral Fellow
Middle East Initiative, Harvard University
2017 - 2018
Abrahams, A. S. (2022). Hard traveling: unemployment and road infrastructure in the shadow of political conflict. Political Science Research and Methods, 10(3), 545-566.
El Kurd, D., Abrahams, A., & Almasri, N. (2025). Moral Shocks and (De)mobilization: The Case of the Palestinian Liberation Movement. Contention, 13(1), 102-137.
Abrahams, A., & Maynier, E. (2022). Measuring the (in) security of Palestinian civil society websites. Middle East Law and Governance, 14(3), 305-330.
Maschmeyer, L., Abrahams, A., Pomerantsev, P., & Yermolenko, V. (2023). Donetsk don’t tell–‘hybrid war’in Ukraine and the limits of social media influence operations. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 22(1), 49-64.
Abrahams, A., Oram, C., & Lozano-Gracia, N. (2018). Deblurring DMSP nighttime lights: A new method using Gaussian filters and frequencies of illumination. Remote Sensing of Environment, 210, 242-258.
- Best Paper of the Year (2022-2023) at the European Political Science Association’s flagship journal, Political Science Research & Methods.
- Admitted to the Tech For Palestine incubator as founder of SaltPillar, a project to archive the Gaza genocide on Instagram (2024).