Life in Production

Call Me Ali

A twelve-year-old in West Beirut is told to borrow a Muslim name to stay safe. Twenty years later in Germany, a registration clerk assumes the name anyway. The same scar, read two different ways.

  • Deep Dive · Lebanon · Levant · Identity · Sectarianism · Faith · Parenting · Diaspora
  • August 3, 2026  ·  11 min read
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The Compromise You Can't See Coming

Moving from a protected Staff Engineer role in Europe to planning a future venture back in the Levant exposes a brutal conflict: how do you compete against agencies built on exploitation without becoming exactly like them?

  • Deep Dive · Entrepreneurship · Work Culture · Levant · Ethics
  • July 12, 2026  ·  10 min read
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The BMW 316i M-Powered: Flashy Badges, Broken Engines

Why overextended expats buy luxury status symbols and dying companies sign nine-figure software contracts. An exploration of the same broken architecture playing out at human scale and corporate scale.

  • Deep Dive · Tech Culture · Software Architecture · Business Strategy · GCC · Levant · Engineering Culture
  • July 5, 2026  ·  7 min read
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The Tri-Regional Operating System: Composing a Career Across the Levant, Europe, and the GCC

An engineering post-mortem on navigating three drastically different work cultures, and the ultimate personal hack for maintaining your sanity across conflicting cultural operating systems.

  • Deep Dive · Career · Work Culture · GCC · Levant · Europe · Remote Work · Software Architecture
  • June 14, 2026  ·  9 min read
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