Notes on teaching and mentorship, alongside longer reflections on the political economy and history of Turkey and Egypt. These are personal reflections, not institutional statements. The views here are mine alone and do not represent any organization I am affiliated with.
August 2026
If you ask anyone about their university years a decade after graduation, they will barely remember the exact mark they got on a midterm. What stays with people for the rest of their lives is how a teacher made them feel.
June 2026
Some days, office hours are exhausting.
March 2026
A comparison of Turkey and Egypt's state led development strategies after Atatürk and Nasser, and why two countries that copied a similar economic blueprint still ended up with very different political systems.