Media Commentary: Phl-17 In focus; Pacifica News Network; Share America; Vermont Public Television; Vox; Washington Post; Commonwealth Magazine; The New Yorker
Professor Ahmed's scholarship has served as the basis for broad public engagement around themes related to democracy voting and Electoral systems.
Op-Ed: Why We Should Rethink Voting Rights From the Ground Up, Washington Monthly Feb 2021 link
UMass Panel: Capitol Siege: Making Sense of What Happened, Jan 2021 video
American Political Science Association Featured Panel: The Regime Question: The United States in Global Perspective, Jan 2021 video
WGBH Forum: The Electoral College, Is Reform Needed? December 2020 video
U.S. State Department, Talk on the 2020 U.S. Elections, November 2020
Federal Hall/Brennan Center Series "Debate Defends Democracy": Democracy and the Electoral College, October 2020 link
American Spring Documentary: Solving the Chaos Conundrum of the Electoral College, September 2020 video
Encounters: Women's Suffrage, Critical Dialogue hosted by the Hartford History Center and the Hartford Public Library, September 2020
American Democracy Collaborative, Democracy 20/20: Can the U.S. Hold Free and Fair Elections This Fall?, July 2020 video
American Experience: “The Vote” PBS discussion commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, June 2020 video
No Jargon Podcast: “Voting in 2020”, May 2020 audio
Constitution Center Virtual Town Hall: “Why Does the Electoral College Exist”, April 2020 video
"Dear Rep. Omar: Can we talk about Anti-Semetism?, Public Seminar, March 2019
Public Talk: “Debating the Electoral College” Debate with Akhil Amar, of Yale Law School, Apr19, 2017
Public Talk: “Freedom of Religion and the Consequences of Politicizing Islam” (Part of Defending Democracy, Engaging Ideas Series), Mar 30, 2017
No Jargon Podcast: “Dangers to Democracy in the United States”, January 2017
“In Defense of the Electoral College”, The American Prospect, Dec 23, 2016.
Panel on the Electoral College: Presentation for the League of Women Voters, Springfield MA, February 7 2016.
"Chief Justice Roberts was Right: How to Fix the Voting Rights Act," Talking Points Memo, February 21, 2014.
"Restoring the Voting Rights Act Will Not Do Enough to Ensure Fair Elections" Policy Brief for the Scholars Strategy Network.January 2014
“When Election Rules Undermine Democracy”, Policy brief for the Scholars Strategy Network, April 2013.
Interviews with WGBY: Topics include Democratization, the Egyptian Transition, and U.S. Elections (Interviews spanned 2011-13).
Collaborated with Al Jazeera English to develop an interactive electoral map of Egypt in preparation for the first parliamentary elections, October 2011.