Tarek Gara
I work in the seam where language meets machine.
Multilingual AI quality at Innodata, across Arabic, Hebrew, and English. Building Folio, Tayyar, and Thaghra. Writing at The Loop.
In a Cyber Politics & Government MA at TAU (thesis track, 2025 – 2027).
Now live · a playground
Tayyar The region's politics, on one map.
A political atlas of the Middle East & North Africa. Every party and public figure placed on shared axes, scored in the open by a transparent rater panel.
Explore the compassCurrently
what's holding my attention this week- Working
- multilingual AI quality at Innodata
- Building
- Folio, Tayyar, Thaghra
- Writing
- Deadly Sand, sequel to Mortal Past
- Editing
- The Loop, monthly
- Studying
- an MA in Cyber Politics & Government at TAU (thesis track, 2025–2027)
Writing
long-form on multilingual AI, alignment, and how products drift as they grow Jun 2026 Jun 2026 Feb 2026
Who Decides What AI Calls True
The fear is about who can switch the models off. The real power is quieter, and harder to take back: who decides which version of the truth your AI serves you first.
I asked nine AIs to map Middle Eastern politics
Western left-right doesn't fit the region. So I built Tayyar — a panel of language models that scores MENA parties on sixteen axes — then used it to dig into Israel's fault lines and a live Knesset coalition simulator. The data says the Middle East barely splits on the economy.
How AI killed the soul of the world's favorite language-learning app
A look at Duolingo's user-(retention)-centered approach.
The rest
books, ventures, playgroundsA letter, once a month.
Essays land here first, then I republish them as The Loop on LinkedIn.
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