ai
Even the people building AI cannot keep up. In Lebanon, we are still counting what the banks would not release. The gap is not a distance. It is a rate, and every month of crisis adds interest.
democracy
Plato warned that democracy counts an informed vote and an uninformed one the same. Now it's deciding wars that way too.
lebanon
Why Lebanon walked out on Netanyahu at the UN while still negotiating with Israel This week, Lebanon's delegation walked out of the UN General Assembly hall as Benjamin Netanyahu began speaking. Confusion followed almost immediately. Lebanon is in direct negotiations with Israel. Lebanon's own government has
ai
On Anthropic, OpenAI, and the oldest power move in human history. I was at my desk last week, building. For six months I have been developing AI applications focused on transparency and public accountability. Tools that help citizens understand where public money goes. Every day I work on the guardrails,
lebanon
A simple guide to where your fuel money actually goes, and a polite suggestion for the 2027 budget. Let me tell you something that will ruin your morning. You already know it. You just haven't seen it written out this simply before. A barrel of crude oil on
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On the two bets Lebanese parents make, and what neither of them says about Lebanon's future. I have been writing for months about Lebanon's recovery. About port governance and institutional reform. About the IMF and frozen deposits and the political system and what needs to change.
governance
Why AI governance is built on the wrong comparison, and what that costs us. Step into an elevator. Press fourteen. The doors close. You don't think about it. You trust it completely, the way you have trusted it for thirty years. It is a machine. Machines do what
lebanese politics
What a traffic jam between Faqra and Mzaar reminded me about how humans survive war. I have been sitting in this car for forty minutes. The road between Faqra and Mzaar is ten minutes on a normal day. Tonight is the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The
resilience
A confession about the most overused word in Lebanese public discourse. Congratulations. You survived another year in Lebanon. The international community would like to call this resilience. We would like to call it Thursday. Every year, after every war, explosion, currency collapse, bank failure, and government paralysis, the same sentence
The powerless wait for a trial that never comes. The powerful make sure it never does. From the port victims' families to the prisoners rotting in cells, Lebanon's broken judiciary fails them all. His name does not matter for this story, because the point is that nobody
lebanon
Why the IMF deal keeps stalling, what Lebanese people actually want, and the assets nobody is talking about. The dinner was winding down. MPs, ministers, and diplomats were saying their goodbyes to the French ambassador, whose posting in Lebanon was ending. It was sunset in Faqra, Lebanon's mountain
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What running for office in Lebanon taught me about how power actually works, and why it was never meant to be reformed. The Illusion of Elections Lebanon holds elections. They are real, contested, and occasionally produce surprises. The 2022 elections sent a record number of independent candidates to parliament, including