Essays from a Syrian Londoner on identity, relationships, culture and the emotional reality of modern life.
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Media & IdentityA hopeful portrayal of queer relationships reveals a subtler imbalance: who gets to create the drama, and who is expected to absorb it?
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Technology & PsychologyWhen a thoughtful exchange with AI begins to feel strategic, mythic and intensely personal, where does analysis end and narrative escalation begin?
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Film & CultureSometimes harm arrives wrapped in charm, style and intimacy. A reflection on the stories we call romantic — and what the camera asks us to overlook.
Read essay ↗The series made gay men visible and socially included, while rarely allowing them to become independent subjects with lives of their own.
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A Syrian Londoner’s perspective
“Two cities shaped the view.
The writing looks beneath it.”
Aleppo and London are not presented here as opposites. They are two ways of noticing: warmth and reserve, inheritance and reinvention, belonging and distance.
ThinkingHam turns that double perspective toward culture, relationships and the everyday psychology behind what we say, do and feel. The aim is clarity without simplification.
Letters from between
Identity, culture and the inner world—written between Aleppo and London.
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