Publications
Bassem Moment
A pause in the noise… Algorithms will not like it
August 18, 2026
The Best University Nobody Ranked
Forty years ago I chose the best university in the world to start my graduate education. A university that took my future more seriously than I did.
August 17, 2026
When Dreams Die First
Age is not measured in years. It is measured in the distance between who you are and who you still dare to become.
August 14, 2026
Injustice Needs Your Permission
For every hand that commits an injustice, a thousand quietly agree to live beside it, and that quiet agreement is what truly darkens the world.
August 13, 2026
When Silence Is a Crime
The world will charge you for saying it, and then, long after it has finished charging you, it will quietly become what you said.
August 11, 2026
To the AI Police Squads .. Go to Hell
I am not confessing. I am working.
August 9, 2026
LEAVE IT ON THE SHELF
We taught ourselves to complain about prices. Somewhere along the way we forgot we were also allowed to walk away.
August 5, 2026
Why Some "Leaders" Steal!
First They Call It Disappointing
July 10, 2026
The Killing Sentence: We Were Sold a Race
They told us life was a race so we would never ask who designed the track.
July 8, 2026
What We Take At The End
We spend our lives rehearsing a self we never let anyone meet, then we take the real one underground.
July 6, 2026
The Word Has Never Been Cheaper
We produce more language than any civilization before us, and we stand behind less of it than any generation in history.
July 4, 2026
A University Class On The Grass
A laptop on the grass, a shove at a hotel door, two brothers & leaders in tears. Everything a campus needs to learn about being human arrived in seventy-two hours.
June 18, 2026
Back to Writing .. So That I Can Breathe
For thirty-three years I have called it writing. It was always closer to breathing.
May 5, 2026
Every Life Has a May Fifth
Some accomplishments are bigger on paper. Others are bigger inside you. There is a date in your life when one became the other, and you may not yet know which date it was.
May 2, 2026
The List Is a Mirror!
The names are interchangeable. What they own now is not. And we gave it to them.
April 30, 2026
The Polished and the Rude Are Cousins
The honest middle of human conversation is disappearing, and we are letting it go without a fight.
April 28, 2026
Stop Listening to the Room!
A note on the voice that pretends to protect you while it quietly buries you.
April 26, 2026
You Cannot Go Far Alone!
The world taught us to move fast. It forgot to teach us where we were going.
April 10, 2026
For Jesus .. Egypt Once Said Yes!
This Easter, the world is celebrating a story that begins with a refugee family. It has simply stopped noticing that part
April 10, 2026
They Are Not Lazy. They Are Leaving!
A generation is disappearing from the world. What I did not expect was to recognize the pull in myself.
April 3, 2026
Dream Less. Begin Anyway!
The most dangerous place in the world is the space between your vision and your first step. Most people live there their whole lives.
March 27, 2026
Do not trap yourself to an algorithm!
I have a confession to make.
March 25, 2026
Why do we wait for death to finally say the good word?
I've been sitting with this question for years. And I keep seeing the same pattern, in boardrooms, academic halls, family dinners, and comment sections across the world.
