Hall IX
Journal
Thirteen essays on technology, craft, education, and memory. Written since June 2024, in English and Arabic.
I Am Not a User, and This Is Not Just a Tool
Rethinking our relationship with AI.
September 7, 2025Lebanon's Schools: From Crumbling Walls to Connected Minds
On a school visit in 2014 that never left me, and what education is owed.
July 14, 2025HICAP: Cultivating a Green Future with Industrial Hemp
A national project at a pivotal economic moment.
July 14, 2025مشروع هيكاب: نحو اقتصاد أخضر ومستدام
من خلال زراعة القنب الصناعي.
April 7, 2025Is It Really Popular, or Just Being Popularized?
An independent study of engineered attention. We scroll, we share, we react.
March 29, 2025New Book Release: Niswen l Forn
A bold conversation about parenting, screens, and the future of our children.
February 26, 2025The Curse of the Square: When Creativity Got Cropped Again
How the frame we all agreed to live inside reshaped storytelling.
February 26, 2025The Invisible Strings: How Our Data Shapes Us Without Us Knowing
Every tap, search, and pause is a thread.
February 21, 2025Rebuilding Sustainably: The Power of Hempcrete Homes
Over 99,000 homes damaged. A material that could rebuild them differently.
November 19, 2024My Journey to London: Connecting, Advocating, Honoring Milestones
Travel, advocacy, and milestones with my wife Nermine.
June 11, 2024Two Voices
A journey of humanity and AI, on publishing a book co-written with a machine.
June 11, 2024Why Postage Stamp?
Philately might seem old-fashioned to some. It is anything but.
June 11, 2024The Joy of Philately
A multicultural journey through stamps, and a grandfather's lasting legacy.