https://bassem.work/The publication of Prof. Bassem K. Khafagy: essays from his newsletters Bassem Moment, Wisdom … Forgotten and Re-Imagine University.enhttps://bassem.work/the-best-university-nobody-ranked/https://bassem.work/the-best-university-nobody-ranked/Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTBassem MomentForty 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.https://bassem.work/when-dreams-die-first/https://bassem.work/when-dreams-die-first/Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTBassem MomentAge is not measured in years. It is measured in the distance between who you are and who you still dare to become.https://bassem.work/injustice-needs-your-permission/https://bassem.work/injustice-needs-your-permission/Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTBassem MomentFor every hand that commits an injustice, a thousand quietly agree to live beside it, and that quiet agreement is what truly darkens the world.https://bassem.work/when-silence-is-a-crime/https://bassem.work/when-silence-is-a-crime/Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTBassem MomentThe world will charge you for saying it, and then, long after it has finished charging you, it will quietly become what you said.https://bassem.work/to-the-ai-police-squads-go-to-hell/https://bassem.work/to-the-ai-police-squads-go-to-hell/Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTBassem MomentI am not confessing. I am working.https://bassem.work/leave-it-on-the-shelf/https://bassem.work/leave-it-on-the-shelf/Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTBassem MomentWe taught ourselves to complain about prices. Somewhere along the way we forgot we were also allowed to walk away.https://bassem.work/the-unexamined-institution/https://bassem.work/the-unexamined-institution/Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTWisdom … ForgottenTwo Books, Four Decades Apart, on the Advantage Universities Reward Without Teaching and the Civilization They Were Never Designed to Meethttps://bassem.work/why-some-leaders-steal/https://bassem.work/why-some-leaders-steal/Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTBassem MomentFirst They Call It Disappointinghttps://bassem.work/the-killing-sentence-we-were-sold-a-race/https://bassem.work/the-killing-sentence-we-were-sold-a-race/Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTBassem MomentThey told us life was a race so we would never ask who designed the track.https://bassem.work/what-we-take-at-the-end/https://bassem.work/what-we-take-at-the-end/Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTBassem MomentWe spend our lives rehearsing a self we never let anyone meet, then we take the real one underground.https://bassem.work/the-word-has-never-been-cheaper/https://bassem.work/the-word-has-never-been-cheaper/Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTBassem MomentWe produce more language than any civilization before us, and we stand behind less of it than any generation in history.https://bassem.work/a-university-class-on-the-grass/https://bassem.work/a-university-class-on-the-grass/Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTBassem MomentA 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.https://bassem.work/the-world-cup-just-schooled-academia/https://bassem.work/the-world-cup-just-schooled-academia/Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTRe-Imagine UniversityGermany went home. Cape Verde stayed longer. Iran never lost a match and left anyway. Every lesson your university refuses to learn just played out in front of billions.https://bassem.work/back-to-writing-so-that-i-can-breathe/https://bassem.work/back-to-writing-so-that-i-can-breathe/Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTBassem MomentFor thirty-three years I have called it writing. It was always closer to breathing.https://bassem.work/every-life-has-a-may-fifth/https://bassem.work/every-life-has-a-may-fifth/Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTBassem MomentSome 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.https://bassem.work/the-list-is-a-mirror/https://bassem.work/the-list-is-a-mirror/Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTBassem MomentThe names are interchangeable. What they own now is not. And we gave it to them.https://bassem.work/the-polished-and-the-rude-are-cousins/https://bassem.work/the-polished-and-the-rude-are-cousins/Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTBassem MomentThe honest middle of human conversation is disappearing, and we are letting it go without a fight.https://bassem.work/the-promise-and-the-drift/https://bassem.work/the-promise-and-the-drift/Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTWisdom … ForgottenOn the conditions of success, and the learning we have yet to securehttps://bassem.work/stop-listening-to-the-room/https://bassem.work/stop-listening-to-the-room/Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTBassem MomentA note on the voice that pretends to protect you while it quietly buries you.https://bassem.work/you-cannot-go-far-alone/https://bassem.work/you-cannot-go-far-alone/Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTBassem MomentThe world taught us to move fast. It forgot to teach us where we were going.https://bassem.work/the-presidency-at-the-crossroads/https://bassem.work/the-presidency-at-the-crossroads/Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTWisdom … ForgottenWhen Complexity Meets Conscience in the Work of University Leadershiphttps://bassem.work/for-jesus-egypt-once-said-yes/https://bassem.work/for-jesus-egypt-once-said-yes/Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTBassem MomentThis Easter, the world is celebrating a story that begins with a refugee family. It has simply stopped noticing that parthttps://bassem.work/they-are-not-lazy-they-are-leaving/https://bassem.work/they-are-not-lazy-they-are-leaving/Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTBassem MomentA generation is disappearing from the world. What I did not expect was to recognize the pull in myself.https://bassem.work/the-energy-we-have-the-courage-we-lack/https://bassem.work/the-energy-we-have-the-courage-we-lack/Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTCOP31: Climate, Academia & AntalyaOn fossil fuels, the solar revolution, and whether the world’s turbulence is finally the signal we neededhttps://bassem.work/after-expertise/https://bassem.work/after-expertise/Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTWisdom … ForgottenOn the Dispersal of Knowledge, the Formation of Wisdom, and What Universities Must Now Becomehttps://bassem.work/dream-less-begin-anyway/https://bassem.work/dream-less-begin-anyway/Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTBassem MomentThe most dangerous place in the world is the space between your vision and your first step. Most people live there their whole lives.https://bassem.work/the-world-is-coming-are-we-ready/https://bassem.work/the-world-is-coming-are-we-ready/Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTCOP31: Climate, Academia & AntalyaIssue 01, April 2, 2026https://bassem.work/the-questions-we-keep-deferring/https://bassem.work/the-questions-we-keep-deferring/Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTWisdom … ForgottenOn Learning, Purpose, and the Unexamined Universityhttps://bassem.work/we-the-people-and-cop31/https://bassem.work/we-the-people-and-cop31/Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTCOP31: Climate, Academia & AntalyaCOP31: Climate, Academia & Antalya publishes every Thursday, starting April 2nd, 2026, and continuing well beyond the opening of the world's largest climate summit in November 2026.https://bassem.work/do-not-trap-yourself-to-an-algorithm/https://bassem.work/do-not-trap-yourself-to-an-algorithm/Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTBassem MomentI have a confession to make.https://bassem.work/two-obligations/https://bassem.work/two-obligations/Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTWisdom … ForgottenOn Designing Universities That Renew Themselves and the Students They Must Not Losehttps://bassem.work/why-do-we-wait-for-death-to-finally-say-the-good-word/https://bassem.work/why-do-we-wait-for-death-to-finally-say-the-good-word/Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTBassem MomentI'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.https://bassem.work/what-education-is-actually-for/https://bassem.work/what-education-is-actually-for/Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTWisdom … ForgottenWisdom ... Recovered # [03]https://bassem.work/women-who-refused-to-let-universities-off-the-hook/https://bassem.work/women-who-refused-to-let-universities-off-the-hook/Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTWisdom … ForgottenWisdom ... Recovered # [02]https://bassem.work/when-learning-becomes-a-shelter/https://bassem.work/when-learning-becomes-a-shelter/Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTRe-Imagine UniversityOn Learning, Doing, and What Universities Must Teach Nexthttps://bassem.work/what-are-universities-actually-for/https://bassem.work/what-are-universities-actually-for/Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTWisdom … ForgottenWisdom ... Recovered # [01]https://bassem.work/the-house-of-wisdom-in-a-fractured-world/https://bassem.work/the-house-of-wisdom-in-a-fractured-world/Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTRe-Imagine UniversityOn the Purpose of Universities When Certainty Collapseshttps://bassem.work/wednesday-may-change-everything-we-hope/https://bassem.work/wednesday-may-change-everything-we-hope/Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTWisdom … ForgottenFor universities. For leaders. For those who dare to ask what comes next. It begins March 4th.https://bassem.work/introducing-wisdom-forgotten/https://bassem.work/introducing-wisdom-forgotten/Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTWisdom … ForgottenThe University May Have a Memory Problemhttps://bassem.work/the-prestige-trap/https://bassem.work/the-prestige-trap/Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTRe-Imagine UniversityEvery university president says they want to be "distinctive." Then they copy Harvard!https://bassem.work/universites-the-reputation-laundromat/https://bassem.work/universites-the-reputation-laundromat/Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTRe-Imagine UniversityHow Harvard, MIT, and Global Universities Became Accompliceshttps://bassem.work/the-curriculum-concrete/https://bassem.work/the-curriculum-concrete/Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTRe-Imagine UniversityHow Institutional Inertia is Devaluing the University Degree.https://bassem.work/universities-plan-in-years-the-world-is-changing-faster/https://bassem.work/universities-plan-in-years-the-world-is-changing-faster/Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTRe-Imagine UniversityMost universities plan carefully. Five-year strategies. Ten-year roadmaps. Annual targets. Accreditation cycles. Ranking horizons. All necessary. All responsible.https://bassem.work/what-re-imagine-university-newsletter-is-about/https://bassem.work/what-re-imagine-university-newsletter-is-about/Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTRe-Imagine UniversityRe-Imagine University is a daily LinkedIn newsletter exploring the future of universities and the university of the future. It is a space for global thought leadership, beyond news, beyond trends, focused on rethinking…https://bassem.work/if-universities-do-not-own-the-change-they-will-inherit-it/https://bassem.work/if-universities-do-not-own-the-change-they-will-inherit-it/Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTUniversities are changing, whether they choose to or not.https://bassem.work/the-world-talks-about-universities-universities-rarely-talk-together/https://bassem.work/the-world-talks-about-universities-universities-rarely-talk-together/Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTRe-Imagine UniversityEverywhere you look, universities are being discussed.https://bassem.work/a-global-initiative-to-designate-07-november-as-international-day-of-u/https://bassem.work/a-global-initiative-to-designate-07-november-as-international-day-of-u/Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMTPRESS RELEASEhttps://bassem.work/take-my-wallet-not-my-phone/https://bassem.work/take-my-wallet-not-my-phone/Fri, 24 May 2019 00:00:00 GMTExactly 2 years ago, I was having a late dinner with friends in an Istanbul restaurant. I left the dinner a bit late and I was going to the parking lot to pick up my car. Streets were quiet and lights were dimmed. I was…https://bassem.work/the-world-of-higher-education-is-not-only-1000-universities/https://bassem.work/the-world-of-higher-education-is-not-only-1000-universities/Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMTTuesday, January 1st, 2019https://bassem.work/technology-and-the-future-of-the-university/https://bassem.work/technology-and-the-future-of-the-university/Sun, 23 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMTA person carrying a smartphone is not necessarily a "Smart Person". A university acquiring all new technological tools would not necessarily become a "Smart University".