Writing on Lebanese AI, and the record behind it

24 Oct 2026 63 AUB faculty among the world's most cited scientistsAUB says 63 of its faculty members are on the 2026 Stanford and Elsevier list of the world's most cited scientists, up from 56 last year, with 8 of them in electrical and computer engineering. 2 min 18 Oct 2026 HAQQ signs with two Egyptian bar associations in one weekIn seven days the Lebanese-founded legal AI company became the technology partner of the New Cairo and Southern Giza Bar Associations, putting its tools in front of more than 55,000 Egyptian lawyers by its own count. 3 min 18 Oct 2026 Lebanon's telecoms gap is in the rule book, not the price listThe state owns both of Lebanon's mobile networks and its fixed network, and the 2002 law that planned to open the market has not been carried through. We read ITU's prices and its regulatory tracker for Lebanon, Jordan, Cyprus and Armenia. On price, Lebanon sits among its peers. On the rules, it is far behind all three. 7 min 16 Oct 2026 Lebanon's people are ahead of its digital systemsOver three weeks we read thirteen datasets on Lebanon's digital economy, one post at a time. Side by side they show one pattern: what individuals do scores well, the shared systems they depend on score poorly, and one global measure cannot see Lebanon at all. 6 min 15 Oct 2026 AUB now has a chair in engineering AI. Here is what it is for.A 2.5 million dollar gift from Fuad and Rula Tamer creates the Rula and Fuad Tamer Chair in Engineering Artificial Intelligence at the American University of Beirut. The university says it is looking for someone in physical AI. 3 min 9 Oct 2026 Lebanon's digital exports fell 81 percent. Then the country stopped being counted.Three things are happening at once. The digital economy has collapsed, the people are still ahead of almost everyone, and Lebanon is quietly disappearing from the indices that would show either. 5 min 28 Sep 2026 Lebanon’s share of GitHub’s code grew every year from 2020 to 2025GitHub publishes, every quarter, how many developer accounts sit in each economy and how much public code they push. We read Lebanon’s line against the rest of the world. The growth is real, it is smaller than the raw numbers suggest, and the dataset cannot see the Lebanese who build from abroad. 6 min 23 Sep 2026 The gatekeepers are already oursAn AUB trained engineer decides which MIT spin-offs get money. A Lebanese-Canadian woman runs an American AI company that raised two hundred million dollars in a single round. Neither of them appears on this register. That is a fact about us, not about them. 5 min 11 Sep 2026 Follow the paperwork on Lebanese AI and it leads out of LebanonThe register needed three tiers because one would have been a lie. Trace the registrations behind the Lebanese AI companies everyone cites and you arrive in Abu Dhabi, Vienna, Sharjah, Tokyo, New York, and a fund domiciled in Luxembourg. 4 min 11 Sep 2026 Lebanon's AI calendar has two dates you can actually bookFourteen entries on the calendar today. Four have already happened, two carry no date at all, one is not open yet, and six are global hackathons that have nothing to do with being in Beirut. 4 min 6 Sep 2026 The nine times errorEvery list of Lebanese AI startups in circulation names the same ten companies, and they all cite the same source. That source is a coding bootcamp's marketing blog, and its funding figures are wrong by a factor of nine. 5 min 30 Aug 2026 What a united Lebanese collective is actually worthFive point eight billion dollars reached Lebanon last year and almost none of it arrived as investment. The Irish and the Indians solved a version of this problem. Here is what it took, and what it would take here. 5 min