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Will AI Take my Job?
The argument over what artificial intelligence will do to jobs has produced more confusion than clarity. The debate is mostly based on predictions from assumptions, often based on unexamined and mostly biased prior beliefs. Depending on what you watch or who you follow you will likely get a different set of data points and historical…
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Three Clocks Strike at Once
Political analysis today is entirely consumed by events: what the president said, which minister resigned, what the market did yesterday. These things matter, but looking at events misses the forces producing them. While our attention stays on the surface, the changes that will shape the next generation are accumulating underneath. Several large cycles at different…
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Political Systems 101 from First Principles
People want things. There is not enough to satisfy everyone’s wants. People are capable of taking by force what they cannot have through agreement. Everything we call politics follows from that. A political system is the machinery for deciding who gets what without the citizens killing each other over it. Constitutions, parliaments, courts, parties, unions,…
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The Irrational Rationality of Iran’s Strategy
What geography, history, and power constraints compel Tehran to do Iran’s regime is doing two things simultaneously that outside observers keep analyzing as one: fighting for regime survival against a convergence of threats it believes is designed to finish it, and — most unexpectedly — sensing an opportunity to change the strategic balance of the…
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The Unexpected Effect on AI from the War on Iran
On February 28, 2026, US and Israeli forces struck Iran. Most stories initially focused on the geopolitics and geoeconomics implications and the fallout from higher gasoline prices. However, within 72 hours, Iranian drones hit three AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain — the first confirmed military attacks on commercial cloud infrastructure in history.…
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Afghanistan–Pakistan: Conflict Over the Invisible Durand Line
THE SITUATION Pakistan has conducted sustained cross-border airstrikes inside Afghanistan since late February 2026 — the seventh airstrike campaign since the Taliban takeover in 2021, but the first to deliberately strike Kabul and major urban centres, marking a qualitative threshold crossed (Britannica) Pakistan’s Defence Minister declared the country in a state of “open war” —…
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Somaliland and the Horn of Africa
THE SITUATION On 26 December 2025, Israel became the first UN member state to formally recognize Somaliland after 34 years of de facto independence. Israel’s recognition injected the issue into active great power competition over the Red Sea corridor This could reshape calculations particularly near the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait for China and the U.S as well…
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The Hollow Man: Created in the image of Science
Contemporary western philosophy has increasingly been dominated by materialism, reductionism, and scientism. From this mindset emerges an approach that treats humans as objects. As atoms and cells without purpose or non-material aspect. At the heart of this is a recurring pattern: whenever a scientific paradigm becomes prominent, bringing breakthroughs in our understanding of the material…
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The Mamdani Moment
As the New York City Mayoral race comes to a close, a new political moment is born with the likely win of Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist who won the democratic party nomination earlier this year. In the aftermath of the Democratic Party’s colossal defeat in the 2024–2025 presidential and congressional elections, the party entered…
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Crisis in Sudan: A Regional Power Battleground
THE SITUATION The fall of El Fasher in the Darfur region to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) marks a major shift in the violent civil war in Sudan that has been raging since April, 2023 Over 150,000 people are estimated to be killed, ٧00,000 children are at risk of death from malnutrition, and nearly 13…
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لماذا تأخرنا؟ وكيف ننهض؟ الإستبداد والعدالة والنهضة
في حياة الشعوب هناك لحظات تعود فيها الأسئلة الكبرى للواجهة وتختلط فيها السياسة مع الفلسفة والدين مع الدولة والماضي مع الحاضر. العالم العربي، على امتداد قرنين ظل يطرح السؤال ذاته بصيغ مختلفة: لماذا تأخرنا؟ وكيف ننهض؟ والإجابة – كما تكررت في فكر كبار مفكرينا – تدور دائماً حول ثلاث كلمات: العدالة، الحرية، والكرامة الانسانية، مع…
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The New Right: America 2.0
In just over a decade, American conservatism has transformed from a fragmented grassroots rebellion to a coherent ideological movement backed by elite institutions and intellectuals. Known as the New Right, this coalition has now entered the execution phase of its long-term strategy, with President Donald J. Trump’s second term serving as the vehicle for a…
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Project Management 101 for Engineers
In the simplest form, a project is the promise to deliver x at a time t. success(project) = deliver(x) / time(t) Most if not all problems around projects center around a misunderstanding of X or surprises around T. Therefore, effective project management would be to ensure a clear definition of X and good tracking for…
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3 Phases to a Successful Machine Learning Project
I was working on a project to find an efficient and automated way to detect sensor failures on a rocket engine. Machine learning has become a popular solution to many hard problems and I wanted to deploy it to this problem. After a few trials and errors, I was excited to report to a small…
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3 Step-Framework for DevOps Operational Excellence
It is 2:13 AM and your phone is flashing and ringing. It is PagerDuty alerting you to a production issue. Technology has certainly evolved since my early days at Amazon Web Services where I had a physical pager :) but this experience is surely very familiar to many engineers developing and operating software in the…
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4 Steps to Analyze and Document Software Architecture
Have you ever joined a technology company and got lost in the code base trying to reverse engineer what was happening? What about a time when you were baffled why the system was designed the way it was? What if you are starting a new design, where do you even begin! In this post, I…
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6 Questions to Hire Software Engineers at a Startup
Great companies are made of great people. In “Good to Great“, Jim Collins emphasized that leaders of companies that go from good to great start with getting the “right people on the bus… and in the right seats”. That is why hiring and retaining the best talent is instrumental to your success. Despite its limitations,…
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الرضا ومعنى السعادة
الرضا بحالك هو مفتاح السعادة. والرضا يكون بالقلب ولا يكون بالعقل. فالعقل مشتت بين ماضي يسترجعه ومستقبل يستشرفه. وهذا يورث الحزن على مافات والهم لما هو أت. فالعقل يرجو ما هو افضل ويحسب ما هو أصلح فإذا ترك لشأنه أحتار وشت فوجب ما يسدده. والقلب إذا صفي ارتقي ورأي بعين البصيرة مالايراه العقل بعين البصر…
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PESD: Post Election Stress Disorder
Beyond the façade of Biden vs Trump there has been a major shift in the demography and economic outlook in America that has been driving a deep divide. One: A younger generation that is more progressive and left-leaning along with monitories that have been marginalized and want more equity/equality (socially, economically, etc.). This is where…
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The Modern Period (1750-1914)
Period Definition Also known as the “Long 19th Century” Not entirely new themes as compared to early-modern period (1450-1750) but some significant changes The Scientific Revolution contributed to superior military technology on sea and land The Industrial Revolution introduced new economic form that is different from agriculture as agriculture was different from hunting and gathering…
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Mamluks and Muhammad Ali – 1250 – 1811
Rise of Mamluks They came from various places, but many came from Turkic tribes Many were pushed westwards as a result of Mongol expansions into central Asia They were trained as warriors from young age After Saladin died, the Ayyubid Dynasty was weakened from within In 1249, French armies invaded Egypt starting the Seventh Crusade…
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Arab Revolt and The Last Caliphate – 1916-1924
Background Russia was the main imperial rival in the late 19th century Many of the Ottoman territories boarded the Russian Empire The eastern Mediterranean Sea The Black Sea The Bosphorus strait Britain, France and Germany all looked for some form of alliance with the Ottomans at various points The “Eastern Question” was how to deal…
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The French Invasion of Algeria – 1830
This is a summary of the major points from a history course on the Middle East (source at the bottom). Background Conquered for the Ottomans by admiral Oruç Reis—known as Barbarossa, or Red Beard Remoteness from Constantinople meant that ambitious Ottoman appointee created their own dynastic rule. By the early 1700s, Ottomans had very little…
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The Suez Canal – 1869
This is a summary of the major points from a history course on the middle east (source at the bottom) Background After Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798, members of the scientific team uncovered traces of ancient canals This never happened because one of the French surveyors concluded erroneously that the Red Sea was 33…
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حول العالم في ثلاثين سنة
لعمرك ثلاثين حولا قد مضت … رأيت فيها الدنيا جبالا ووديانا ففي أرض بيداء جرداء مقفرة … فارقت أهلا وأحبابا وخلانا وعلى أرض الكنانة أنهار وأشجار … عشت في ظلها عاشقا ولهانا وإلى أرض بعيدة شددت رحلي … وأفنيت هناك ربيع العمر حيرانا لعمرك ثلاثون عاما قد…
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سيدي المجمع
كان المصري القديم أعجوبة العالم في كافة المجالات ولكن سيظل التاريخ يذكر طويلا أحد أهم إنجازاته، “مجمع التحرير” فقد كان المهندس المصري القديم بعيد النظر و”بتاع كلة” ويتضح ذلك في تصميم “المجمع”. فحتى الآن لم يعرف السبب الحقيقي الذي بني من أجله. فعند أول نظرة يهيئ لك أنه أحد الأهرامات أو أحد تجارب بناء المكعبات…
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صناعة النكتة
مصر من أغنى دول العالم كما نعلم. فمازال اللصوص ينهبون خيراتها من آلاف السنين ومع ذالك يزال شعبها يجد قوت عيشة ويتصدق بقفشاتة المضحكة على العالم ساخرا من نفسة وحالة و حكامة. وفي ظل الخمول الإقتصادي الذي نعانية وجب التفكير في إيجاد مصادر دخل جديدة وتفعيل صناعات وطنية لا تعتمد على عوامل .خارجية أعتقد أننا…
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