Tarek Gara

I work on how AI handles language and politics.

Multilingual AI quality at Innodata, across Arabic, Hebrew, and English, and an MA in cyber politics at Tel Aviv University. I build research tools like Tayyar and write essays here and in The Loop. Three books out, two on the way.

Tarek Gara, head and shoulders, against a grey wall

Now

Building: Folio, Tayyar
Publishing: Deadly Sand, sequel to Mortal Past, out 27 December
Editing: The Loop, the newsletter
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. The method is in a paper on arXiv, and the data is open on Zenodo.

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Next book · out 27 December

Deadly Sand

Alec Goulding · Book 2

He faked his death to save his life.
Now it's costing everyone else theirs.

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Writing

Long-form on multilingual AI, alignment, and how products drift as they grow.

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.

16 min Aug 2026

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.

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Books, ventures, playgrounds.