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About.
Multilingual AI quality at Innodata, builder of small focused tools, writer. Working in the seam where language meets machine, across Arabic, Hebrew, and English.
Founded Folio, Itaha, Mawrid Research, and The Melius. Building Tayyar and Thaghra. Four books out, two in progress. From and in Jatt.
Areas
four practices, one seam-
Folio
An integrity-first research workspace for academics. Discover the literature, write grounded in your own sources, and prove the work is yours.
At usefolio.co; publicly available with a free tier.
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Building tools
Tayyar: a political-compass map of MENA actors, with the reasoning behind each score exposed. Thaghra: an open evaluation harness for adversarial prompts in Arabic — soon. Built early, iterated in public.
See playgrounds.
Studies
how the thinking was formed- 2025 / 2027
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MA · Cyber Politics & Government · Tel Aviv University
Thesis track. The political dimensions of digital infrastructure and AI governance.
- 2019 / 2022
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BA · English Literature & International Relations · Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 2023
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Executive Education · “3D” Entrepreneurship · Reichman University
Earlier: research and teaching assistant at Al-Qasemi Academic College (2021 – 2023) on education and emerging tech, and a short research contract at the HUJI Department of Education (2022 – 2023).
Founded
organisations and tools, by year- 2026 Tayyarتيار · political compass, MENA
- 2026 Thaghraثغرة · Arabic adversarial evaluation · soon
- 2026 Folio · research workspace
- 2025 Mawrid Researchمورد · editorial studio, closed to new projects
- 2023 Itahaإتاحة · digital accessibility non-profit
- 2022 / 2024 Masooda · ERP for restaurants, food-waste focus; co-founded, ran product and UX
- 2019 / 2023 The Melius · freelance design and editorial studio
Detail for the live ones lives on projects and playgrounds.
Published
books, poetry, short fiction- 2024
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A second collection of poetry. Self-published.
- 2023
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A first collection of poetry. Self-published.
- 2021
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The Flag Bearers
A short story. Available on request.
- 2020
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An Alec Goulding thriller. Self-published in 2020. 488 pages.
Plus essays on Medium since 2020 on politics, society, religion, and design.
Hobbies
outside the work- Learning Spanish the reason Espani exists
- Reading fiction and non-fiction
- Photography mostly while travelling