Tarek Gara
I work in the seam where language meets machine.
Multilingual AI quality at Innodata, across Arabic, Hebrew, and English. Builder of small focused tools, and a writer: essays here and in The Loop, four books in the library.
Now
- Writing
- Deadly Sand, sequel to Mortal Past
- Editing
- The Loop, monthly
- Studying
- an MA in Cyber Politics & Government 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 compassWriting
Long-form on multilingual AI, alignment, and how products drift as they grow.
Sep 2026 Sep 2026 Aug 2026
No Opt-Out: AI Features You Cannot Escape
Adobe fills its tools with AI nudges nobody requested, Canva reprices a subscription around features people never wanted, and the industry debates only when to board the bandwagon.
Where the AIs Say They Stand
Ten AI models grade Middle Eastern politics every day. I made them take the test themselves — and one sentence decided whether they answered.
The Cost of Room for Improvement
The MVP began as a survival tactic for startups with no money and no users. Now the richest companies in the world can use it to ship below a bar they could clear, let machines grade machines, and turn users into unpaid quality assurance.
The rest
Books, ventures, playgrounds.
A letter, once a month.
Essays land here first, then I republish them as The Loop on LinkedIn.
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