Books That Stayed With Me in 2025
Holiday season is coming in many countries. Some people have extra time, while others are planning their reading list for 2026 or looking for inspiration.
Holiday season is coming in many countries. Some people have extra time, while others are planning their reading list for 2026 or looking for inspiration.
There is a quiet contradiction in the story of modern innovation. Everywhere you look, technology largely works as promised. Systems run faster, automation delivers precision,
When I speak with diplomats, donors, foundations, and impact investors, each of them has a perspective and an incentive for international aid and development. Some
My dear friend, The world is asking much of you in these days. We are living through a demanding moment in our work. The needs
The Real Test of AI: Can We Change Fast Enough? I have spent the past few years watching AI move from a quiet experiment in labs
Hope Is Not a Strategy People say, “I have hope.”They live on it. Breathe it. Build their mornings and midnights around it.Hope that things will
I am proud to be Syrian. That pride is not about borders or slogans. It is quieter and deeper, an inheritance of resilience, creativity, and
I have sat in boardrooms that could not have been more different. Some were polished rooms with long tables and bottled water lined in neat
Reflections on the Aid Industrial Complex Seeing my paper/analysis The Aid Industrial Complex: Analyzing Power Structures, Dependency Dynamics, and Reform Pathways in a Disrupted Global Order ranked
Lines The sun was heavy on the streets of Copenhagen today. I was walking and listening to an audiobook, when I stopped at a coffee
