Tarek Gara
I work in the seam where language meets machine.
Multilingual AI quality at Innodata, across Arabic, Hebrew, and English. Building Folio, Tayyar, and Thaghra. Writing at The Loop.
In a Cyber Politics & Government MA at TAU (thesis track, 2025 – 2027).
Now live · a playground
Tayyar The region's politics, on one map.
A political atlas of the Middle East & North Africa. Every party and public figure placed on shared axes, scored in the open by a transparent rater panel.
Explore the compassCurrently
what's holding my attention this week- Working
- multilingual AI quality at Innodata
- Building
- Folio, Tayyar, Thaghra
- Writing
- Deadly Sand, sequel to Mortal Past
- Editing
- The Loop, monthly
- Studying
- an MA in Cyber Politics & Government at TAU (thesis track, 2025–2027)
Writing
long-form on multilingual AI, alignment, and how products drift as they grow Jun 2026 Feb 2026 Feb 2026
I asked nine AIs to map Middle Eastern politics
Western left-right doesn't fit the region. So I built Tayyar — a panel of language models that scores MENA parties on sixteen axes — then used it to dig into Israel's fault lines and a live Knesset coalition simulator. The data says the Middle East barely splits on the economy.
How AI killed the soul of the world's favorite language-learning app
A look at Duolingo's user-(retention)-centered approach.
Why AI thinks in English and forgets in Arabic
An audit of the architectural friction and reasoning bottlenecks across Semitic languages.
The rest
books, ventures, playgroundsA letter, once a month.
Essays land here first, then I republish them as The Loop on LinkedIn.
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