Ali Al Mokdad
@AlMokdadAli1
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Strategic Senior Leader Specializing in Global NGO Operations, Governance, and Innovative Programming
Joined July 2023
After months of reflection, I’ve put my thoughts into a small book—about aid, presence, resilience, and what remains when the system fails. It speaks from the heart to the heart of the sector. https://t.co/Iy3EwRxUFj
#QuantumHumanitarian #AidReflections #HumanitarianWork
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In the balance sheets of the world, one person’s debt is another person’s asset.
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The humanitarian system is not just built on logistics, protocols, or policies. It is built—person by person—on the shoulders of those who care deeply, act boldly, and show up every day in service of others. And if we can start by showing up for them, too—then perhaps what’s
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Reflecting on conversations I had with leaders and subject matter experts in the UAE and Denmark around AI governance, as well as the recent US Executive Orders (EO 14179 on Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence and the EO on Unlocking Cures for
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One day I will write about this day. And on that day, I will mention how today did not feel like just a day—it felt like something more. #ApprovedBusinessPlan #Denmark
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Writing is prayer on paper, and every prayer is a reaching for clarity, for meaning, and for something larger than ourselves.
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History belongs to those who protect humanity, and the future belongs to those who dare to serve it.
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The story of humanity has been written by ordinary people, guided by courage and sustained by hope, and it is they who will write the future we share.
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Pain + Reflection = Progress Pain without reflection is just suffering. Reflection without pain is just theory. Together, they make progress.
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To have the results very few have, you must do the actions very few do.
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Happy to see The Aid Industrial Complex paper ranked as #1 in the Direct Foreign Investment category on SSRN (Social Science Research Network). Grateful for the recognition — and for the growing dialogue on power, reform, and accountability in global aid. Link:
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After finishing my full time job, I spent the past months writing, reading, walking, listening to podcasts and audiobooks. I joined many conversations, supported strategies, sat on boards, facilitated dialogues, finished my book and kept working on other projects. I also spoke at
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The generation shaped by Covid and raised through screens is emerging from online culture. What comes out can feel like incoherence, which is why we need more self awareness and a willingness to truly listen.
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Growing up in Syria, I was taught how to survive failure. You fall, you rise, you keep moving because there is no other choice. But no one showed me how to live with success. Each time I win, I feel uncertain, and I rush to find the next limit to push.
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