I study how news media construct political meaning — framing, ideology, editorial position — using computational methods at Le French News Lab, the research lab I founded in Paris to study the French media ecosystem at scale.
I came to research by building. Thirteen years as a product leader and founder across AI, fintech (Linkurious, Finary) and B2B SaaS — making systems that move information (PushBots), make it findable (IPtrace and currencystack, both acquired by apiLayer), and turn it into public accountability in my native Egypt (MorsiMeter, Mwazna, Zabatak).
Before that: youth policy at the Arab League, technology and policy advisory for Internews Europe, an MSc in Public Policy and Management from Birkbeck, University of London as a Chevening Scholar, and an EMBA from Quantic. In another life, I published poetry in classical Arabic.
Along the way: Forbes' 30 Most Promising Young Entrepreneurs in Africa, Top 100 Influential Young Africans, the Anzisha Prize, a Data Journalism Award nomination, two World Summit Youth Awards, and a US patent.