بِسْمِ اللَّٰهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

Asjad Rehman

A computer scientist and political scientist writing on power, order, and the political economy of emerging technology — and building the tools that follow from it.

Engineer · Political Scientist · Founder

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01
Methodology
Proximity, Method, and the Marginalization of Black Women in Political Thought

This essay argues that what separates stronger from weaker accounts in Black political thought is not proximity to experience, but whether gender is treated as structurally constitutive of the analysis—comparing Cooper, Wells, and Du Bois.

7 MIN
02
Political Islam
God, State, and Citizen: Individual Religiosity and Political Action in Post-Musharraf Pakistan

Using World Values Survey data across three waves, this paper examines whether individual religiosity became a stronger predictor of political participation in Pakistan after the fall of Musharraf's secular military regime.

11 MIN
03
Political Theory
The Racial House and Its Exits: Baldwin, Ellison, and Morrison on a World Beyond Race

A comparison of how Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison each envision a world free of racial hierarchy — and why Morrison's vision is the most plausible.

8 MIN
04
Culture
Art and Dissent: How Art Reflects American Politics and Decisions

An exploration of how art has historically reflected dissent, challenged injustice, and exposed the impacts of American political decisions.

14 MIN
05
Geopolitics
Failure of the Liberal World Order

This essay explores the internal contradictions, geopolitical limitations, and multipolar pressures that challenge the foundations of the liberal international order.

17 MIN

The things I’m building — where the engineering and the ideas meet.

AegisSwarm logoAegisSwarmFlagship

Autonomous swarm defense.

A platform for distributed, human-in-the-loop response — coordinating autonomous systems that stay reliable under adversarial conditions. The core of my work in defense technology.

Sadd logoSadd

A barrier between you and the scroll.

A focus app built in Hattiesburg with intention — a deliberate barrier between you and the infinite feed. Sadd, Inc.

Sadd Tech logoSadd Tech

A boutique software studio.

The studio behind the products — donation portals, iPad kiosk flows, and admin dashboards, built on a modern, deliberately brutalist stack.

Confer logoConfer

Giving, made effortless.

Donation infrastructure for community organizations — online donor checkout and an iPad kiosk flow, from a single system.

Estrah logoEstrah

GOTS-certified organic cotton.

An organic cotton garment brand, vertically manufactured in Punjab, Pakistan — retail and wholesale, GOTS-certified (CU-843812).

InfinixLeverage logoInfinixLeverage

Operations, not theatrics.

Operations Director — client success, delivery systems, and the organizational plumbing that keeps it shipping.

Asjad Rehman
Based in Hattiesburg, MS
Dual degree · CS + Political Science
About

I work at the intersection of technology, statecraft, and security — building systems, technical and institutional, that operate reliably under adversarial conditions.

I’m a dual-degree Computer Science and Political Science student at the University of Southern Mississippi and the founder of AegisSwarm. Alongside it I build Sadd, Confer, and Estrah, and serve as Operations Director at InfinixLeverage. I also serve as Vice President and Imam at the Islamic Center of Hattiesburg.

I write essays on power, order, and the political economy of emerging technology. Across all of it, I care about one thing: work that must actually hold.

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