Stories of Khasa — first website post-UG
Seed-funded extension of my Khasa River fieldwork: a digital archive for stories, photographs, and oral histories connected to Kirkuk and the Khasa River.
Activity
Posts, projects, reposts, and videos — engineering, research, journalism, and campus leadership.
Reposted · Alan Ali Saeed / Kurdistan24
Kurdish poetry adapted into opera at Holland Festival
Repost: For the first time, a Kurdish poetic text performed in Kurdish on an international stage in Amsterdam.
Reflections on A Philosophy of Software Design
Why design principles outlast tools — and why engineers who reason from first principles will have an advantage as AI democratises knowledge.
AUIS Senior Day 2026 — I can put AUIS as my Alma Mater now
Graduation milestone at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani — celebrating the class of 2026.
The April issue of AUIS Voice is live
Syrians returning from Germany, Artemis II, gold, environmental doomerism, Google RAM — real topics handled with optimism. My piece: MoonWalkers.
First issue of the renewed AUIS Voice
The Diagnosis — on AI, medical accountability, and what happens when the chain of human reasoning gets quietly outsourced.
Online Wikipedia session with Iraqi Wikipedians
Beginner-friendly session on creating accounts, editing articles, adding references, and taking first steps as a Wikimedian.
Wikipedia's birthday at AUIB with Wikimedia Iraq
Celebrating open knowledge in practice — from hesitant first edits to careful citations with AUIS Wikimedians.
Recentering community with SEED Center therapists
Joint session with Whatsup Club and Creative Writing Club — grief, mental exhaustion, and healthier ways of coping during difficult times.
Final Club Day as co-leader of four clubs
Grey Area, Creative Writing Club, Cyberproject, and Wikimedians — roses for students who became leaders themselves.
Reposted · Alexander Kaurov & Naomi Oreskes
Who owns climate knowledge?
Repost: Lineages of Science in a Warming World — on the asymmetry between academic datasets and platform-scale behavioral records.
Sitak fieldwork with HelloFuture
Design thinking for climate and AI — biodiversity thinning, water misuse, and small-scale corrections rooted in mature attention.
National Geographic & Nature Conservancy externship complete
Three months of fieldwork on the Khasa River basin — environmental challenges as communication, planning, and human problems.
University Day 2025 — four clubs, one coherent experiment
GreyArea, Creative Writing, AUIS Wikimedians, and CyberProject demonstrating interdisciplinary student-led inquiry.
Wikimedia Foundation & Wikimedia Iraq visit AUIS
Kickoff of the AUIS Wikimedians Club — connecting students with the global movement for free and open knowledge.
CyberProject hosts Hamno Askary on Creative Tech Entrepreneurship
Youth as architects shaping Kurdistan's tech path — from early startups to building H9 Cloud.
Point 6 Conference, Erbil — democracy as a project under repair
Two days tracing Iraq's democratic fractures — institutions promised but never built, freedoms written but never delivered.
Harvard Aspire — 5,000 years of storytelling
From Mesopotamian clay tablets to LLMs — every technological shift in writing reshapes culture itself.
Early Earthquake Warning System — ASES 2025
Prototype combining MPU6050 sensors, Arduino + ESP32, and cloud push alerts to detect P-waves seconds before shaking.
ReadByte at AUIS Capstone & STEM showcase
Science communication platform weaving API integrations and creative problem-solving to make complex content easier to understand.
Pioneers of Change — 198 hours of civic training
Workshops across Iraq on electoral narratives, media accountability, governance, and youth civic engagement.