Dilek Sayedahmed
@dileksayedahmed.bsky.social
Market Design Economist gone rogue | Director at WAGE & EIC ✨ Social Policy at NYU Paris | One of those academic types who prefers books over people✌🏾Elaine Benes of economics 🙋🏽♀️
I'm ashamed to say, I'm here, but for now: https://dileksay2.substack.com
I'm ashamed to say, I'm here, but for now: https://dileksay2.substack.com
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Just some thoughts from an immigrant economist gal wrapping up this historic election season. It really shouldn’t come as a surprise. The rhetoric of the center-left in the U.S. has been, as usual, frustrating.
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From Hamdan Ballal, co-director of last year’s Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.” This is happening now.
February 16, 2026 at 1:26 AM
From Hamdan Ballal, co-director of last year’s Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.” This is happening now.
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
Economist Gabriel Zucman shared with us an absolutely stunning graphic 👇🏾 that depicts the wealth of America richest 0.00001 percent as a share of the nation’s total household wealth.
February 16, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Economist Gabriel Zucman shared with us an absolutely stunning graphic 👇🏾 that depicts the wealth of America richest 0.00001 percent as a share of the nation’s total household wealth.
It's here, folks! Our book is here! I'm honored to be featured in the new book "Revolutionary Love Letters" of SOAS University London's ever-excellent Feminist Centre for Racial Justice.
I contribute to Chapter 3 (Love as Defiance) w/ my letter to Rima Hassan. Happy reading!
To read the book:
I contribute to Chapter 3 (Love as Defiance) w/ my letter to Rima Hassan. Happy reading!
To read the book:
February 16, 2026 at 11:25 AM
It's here, folks! Our book is here! I'm honored to be featured in the new book "Revolutionary Love Letters" of SOAS University London's ever-excellent Feminist Centre for Racial Justice.
I contribute to Chapter 3 (Love as Defiance) w/ my letter to Rima Hassan. Happy reading!
To read the book:
I contribute to Chapter 3 (Love as Defiance) w/ my letter to Rima Hassan. Happy reading!
To read the book:
I miss my father tremendously these days.
Grief can be mind-fuck 🥺
This particular piece, I wrote for the powerhouse that was (is) Salah El-Din:
Miss you habibi.
Grief can be mind-fuck 🥺
This particular piece, I wrote for the powerhouse that was (is) Salah El-Din:
Miss you habibi.
I Was Meaning to Get to Your Message, But Then My Father Died
Notes on grief, migration, and the soil that claims us.
open.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:28 PM
I miss my father tremendously these days.
Grief can be mind-fuck 🥺
This particular piece, I wrote for the powerhouse that was (is) Salah El-Din:
Miss you habibi.
Grief can be mind-fuck 🥺
This particular piece, I wrote for the powerhouse that was (is) Salah El-Din:
Miss you habibi.
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On January 1, the Israeli occupation revoked the licenses of 37 humanitarian organizations including MSF, the Norwegian Refugee Council and ActionAid, from operating in Gaza, and it has now warned they must “must complete the cessation of their activities by March 1, 2026.”
Israel Destroyed Gaza’s Hospitals. Now It’s Banning Doctors Without Borders.
Israel says it will start enforcing its ban on 37 aid groups in Gaza in March, putting more Palestinian lives at risk.
truthout.org
February 12, 2026 at 6:45 PM
On January 1, the Israeli occupation revoked the licenses of 37 humanitarian organizations including MSF, the Norwegian Refugee Council and ActionAid, from operating in Gaza, and it has now warned they must “must complete the cessation of their activities by March 1, 2026.”
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Reminder: The biggest source of disparagement of hostage families and downplaying of Oct 7th has been the Israeli government because anything that makes Bibi look bad is verboten. Let that sink in.
forward.com/opinion/8049...
forward.com/opinion/8049...
The Israeli government wants you to stop calling Oct. 7 a 'massacre.' Yes, really.
Israel's government objected to calling Hamas' Oct. 7 attack a 'massacre' in a new bill, as part of a strategy to alter the tale of that day.
forward.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Reminder: The biggest source of disparagement of hostage families and downplaying of Oct 7th has been the Israeli government because anything that makes Bibi look bad is verboten. Let that sink in.
forward.com/opinion/8049...
forward.com/opinion/8049...
This week's read for me was Olga Tokarczuk's "House of Day, House of Night." This is my second Tokarczuk after her "Draw Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead." And this one was ALSO EPIC!
A MUST!
A MUST!
February 15, 2026 at 7:29 PM
This week's read for me was Olga Tokarczuk's "House of Day, House of Night." This is my second Tokarczuk after her "Draw Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead." And this one was ALSO EPIC!
A MUST!
A MUST!
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Breaking: banning Palestine Action was “disproportionate and unlawful,” judges rule.
2,500 people+ were arrested because Labour *broke the law* in banning Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws.
All of this bcs Labour chose to protect Israel at all costs.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
2,500 people+ were arrested because Labour *broke the law* in banning Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws.
All of this bcs Labour chose to protect Israel at all costs.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
UK Palestine Action ban ruled unlawful, in humiliating blow for ministers
Thousands arrested for supporting group since proscription are now in legal limbo as Mahmood says she will appeal
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Breaking: banning Palestine Action was “disproportionate and unlawful,” judges rule.
2,500 people+ were arrested because Labour *broke the law* in banning Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws.
All of this bcs Labour chose to protect Israel at all costs.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
2,500 people+ were arrested because Labour *broke the law* in banning Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws.
All of this bcs Labour chose to protect Israel at all costs.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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I want to see these leaders discuss more about what this means for smaller countries.
World's rules-based order 'no longer exists', Germany's Merz warns
World's rules-based order 'no longer exists', Germany's Merz warns
"Our freedom is not guaranteed" in an era of big powers, the German chancellor tells Munich's security summit.
www.bbc.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:46 PM
I want to see these leaders discuss more about what this means for smaller countries.
Bonjour bon matin tout le monde, je voudrais partager important and subtle art right outside our municipal office here in paris (my sincere apologies for the french on it but I thought some of you might appreciate this piece): Merci, bonne journée et bon vendredi!
February 13, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Bonjour bon matin tout le monde, je voudrais partager important and subtle art right outside our municipal office here in paris (my sincere apologies for the french on it but I thought some of you might appreciate this piece): Merci, bonne journée et bon vendredi!
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by the brilliant Madhumita Murgia is a must read re: the piece below.
February 12, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by the brilliant Madhumita Murgia is a must read re: the piece below.
Again, essential must-read by the ever-excellent @jwmason.bsky.social 👇🏾
Read and make read.
Added to my course syllabus ✅
Read and make read.
Added to my course syllabus ✅
The Real Cost of Affordable Housing | JW Mason
Understanding the debate over distressed buildings, multifamily rental incomes, and the rent freeze
substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Again, essential must-read by the ever-excellent @jwmason.bsky.social 👇🏾
Read and make read.
Added to my course syllabus ✅
Read and make read.
Added to my course syllabus ✅
Folks, you gotta read this and make people read it. I am completely changing my class tomorrow as well as my syllabus to shift focus on this. (And yessiree bob my grad course is called “not-so-free market economics” so, touché).
An essential must-read 👇🏾
An essential must-read 👇🏾
This is a wonderfully written piece and I will be recommending it to everyone who knows how to read. Essential contribution to clarify positions, obligations and incentives under rent-stablization regimes.
I have a new piece out today in Phenomenal World, on the economics of a freeze in NYC regulated rents. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aft...
February 12, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Folks, you gotta read this and make people read it. I am completely changing my class tomorrow as well as my syllabus to shift focus on this. (And yessiree bob my grad course is called “not-so-free market economics” so, touché).
An essential must-read 👇🏾
An essential must-read 👇🏾
Essential must-read:
I have a new piece out today in Phenomenal World, on the economics of a freeze in NYC regulated rents. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aft...
February 12, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Essential must-read:
I am a market design economist who teaches funding design and advises public sector, and let me tell ya: this is the best fuckin thing I have read in awhile.
Merci, sir.
Merci, sir.
The stats on my irregular housing policy blog are very modest but they tell me people keep coming back to this post, so Imma pin it. Play the hits they say.
medium.com/p/d58d9b30645b
medium.com/p/d58d9b30645b
There is no such thing as non-market housing
Last June, my employer, Vivre en Ville, hosted its annual symposium in Montreal. Since this year’s theme was efficient land use, of course…
medium.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:03 PM
I am a market design economist who teaches funding design and advises public sector, and let me tell ya: this is the best fuckin thing I have read in awhile.
Merci, sir.
Merci, sir.
I am always in Arundhati Roy state of mind.
February 12, 2026 at 9:52 PM
I am always in Arundhati Roy state of mind.
I switched to books, pen, & paper in my grad courses (seminar-style) as well. And my students and myself are having a blast (we be discussing & writing) in terms of our brains’ green cells absorbing, sparking new ideas (yes for me too—the way I run back to my manuscripts!). A co-learning blast!
Last semester, I shifted what had been a 4-part series of online discussion posts to a 4-part series of in-class, pen and paper short essays. I've never received more positive feedback in student evals from a single pedagogical decision ever. www.chronicle.com/article/to-s...
To Solve the Student-Attention Problem, Professors Turn to Pencils and Paper
Some say it’s a better way to keep students focused and engaged.
www.chronicle.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:47 PM
I switched to books, pen, & paper in my grad courses (seminar-style) as well. And my students and myself are having a blast (we be discussing & writing) in terms of our brains’ green cells absorbing, sparking new ideas (yes for me too—the way I run back to my manuscripts!). A co-learning blast!
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It almost seems as if the United States was founded on a bunch of hellish rape plantations run for the obscene enrichment of a gang of already obscenely wealthy slavers.
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
February 12, 2026 at 2:09 PM
It almost seems as if the United States was founded on a bunch of hellish rape plantations run for the obscene enrichment of a gang of already obscenely wealthy slavers.
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She is an empty suit, of course. And an absolute nasty piece of cornbread.
She is also, to my somewhat trained ear, absolutely, positively terrified here. She is either intimidated by the process or deeply anxious about her relationship with her boss. Or both.
But she is terrified.
She is also, to my somewhat trained ear, absolutely, positively terrified here. She is either intimidated by the process or deeply anxious about her relationship with her boss. Or both.
But she is terrified.
The question for Baghdad Bondi was, how many of Epstein’s co-conspirators and pedophiles have you indicted or investigated?
Answer: The Dow is over $50K.
Answer: The Dow is over $50K.
February 12, 2026 at 12:51 PM
She is an empty suit, of course. And an absolute nasty piece of cornbread.
She is also, to my somewhat trained ear, absolutely, positively terrified here. She is either intimidated by the process or deeply anxious about her relationship with her boss. Or both.
But she is terrified.
She is also, to my somewhat trained ear, absolutely, positively terrified here. She is either intimidated by the process or deeply anxious about her relationship with her boss. Or both.
But she is terrified.
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Israel's Venezuela dividend: First delivery of crude oil from Venezuela to Israel, ending the embargo that Venezuela has imposed on Israel for years.
www.israelnationalnews.com/news/422236?...
www.israelnationalnews.com/news/422236?...
After Maduro: First delivery of crude oil from Venezuela to Israel
The move, as part of the plan to open up the oil export market, ends the embargo that Venezuela has imposed on Israel for years.
www.israelnationalnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Israel's Venezuela dividend: First delivery of crude oil from Venezuela to Israel, ending the embargo that Venezuela has imposed on Israel for years.
www.israelnationalnews.com/news/422236?...
www.israelnationalnews.com/news/422236?...
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Canadian pension giant halts deals with Dubai-based DP World over chief’s Jeffrey Epstein ties www.ft.com/content/c813... via @ft
Canadian pension giant halts deals with DP World over chief’s Jeffrey Epstein ties
La Caisse to suspend future ventures with the Dubai-based logistics group over Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem’s messages
www.ft.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Canadian pension giant halts deals with Dubai-based DP World over chief’s Jeffrey Epstein ties www.ft.com/content/c813... via @ft
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Turkey's foreign minister says the US and Iran appear ready to compromise to secure a nuclear deal, but warns that broadening talks to cover Tehran’s ballistic missile program would risk “nothing but another war.”
ara.tv/9nsen
ara.tv/9nsen
US and Iran showing flexibility on nuclear deal, Turkey’s foreign minister says
The US and Iran appeared ready to compromise to secure a nuclear deal, but broadening talks to cover Tehran’s ballistic missile program would risk “nothing
ara.tv
February 12, 2026 at 6:13 AM
Turkey's foreign minister says the US and Iran appear ready to compromise to secure a nuclear deal, but warns that broadening talks to cover Tehran’s ballistic missile program would risk “nothing but another war.”
ara.tv/9nsen
ara.tv/9nsen
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Portugal urged to adapt to climate emergency after series of deadly storms
Portugal urged to adapt to climate emergency after series of deadly storms
Continuing extreme weather has caused deaths of 16 people, evacuation of thousands and destruction of homes
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Europe live – latest updates
Portugal is under pressure to draw up plans to adapt to the climate emergency as the country continues to be lashed by an unprecedented series of storms that have killed at least 16 people and left tens of thousands without electricity.
More than 3,000 people were evacuated from the Coimbra area of central Portugal on Wednesday as the Mondego River reached critical levels, while part of the country’s main motorway, the A1, collapsed after a dyke on the Mondego gave way under the weight of flood water. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Portugal urged to adapt to climate emergency after series of deadly storms