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In January 2026 someone in Syria signed up for Toptal and had the account suspended the moment they selected Syrian nationality. Nothing about them changed. Only the disclosure did. The same moment repeats across hundreds of services, at exactly the points where a career is made.
Aya M Gomaa7 min read
Miriam Alarbaji Alsayegh has a habit of committing to things she is not yet qualified for: a subject she never chose, an interview she answered in the wrong language, and a job she left before she had anywhere else to go. In October she starts a program in applied AI at the University of Essex.
Miriam Alarbaji Alsayegh4 min read
A Syrian computer science student goes home for ten days to test whether he could build a future there after thirteen years away. The biggest obstacle was not electricity or infrastructure. It was the digital services, from AI assistants to LinkedIn, blocked inside the country.
Taimullah Kellizy4 min read