Life in Flow

A New Year Reading for Myself

Hiba Mohammad

02 Jan 2026 — 1 min read

01 January 2026

Today I pause.
Not for the world, not for deadlines, not for anyone else; only for me.

2025 held so much.

Uncertainty, hope, small victories, moments when I doubted myself, moments when I surprised myself.

I carried responsibilities that no one fully saw.
I fought for my future even on the days when I was tired.
I showed up, again and again.

I acknowledge that.
I honour the weight I carried and the strength that carried me.

Water, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Blame: Reframing Syria’s Food Security Debate

In the Syrian case, neo-colonialism operates less through direct territorial control and more through structural dependence: control over finance, technology, narratives, and access to water flows (upstream, institutional, or humanitarian). Water governance becomes a lever that constrains food sovereignty while appearing technocratic, humanitarian, or environmentally neutral. Introduction: from hydro-mission to

How Hiring Systems Reproduce Geographic Hierarchies of Expertise

I keep finding myself in the same strange conversation. On paper, I am a researcher with a PhD. Years of modeling rivers that refuse to behave, climate scenarios that refuse to agree with one another, and policy frameworks that only work if politics briefly steps aside. In life, I am

Old Doha Port: Water, Pearls, and Heritage

In Mina’s pastel - coloured streets, water does not just appear as horizon and reflection, it is present as inheritance and imagination. The murals that colour these waterfront walls do not merely decorate: they speak to a continuity of life that once braced itself against the tides and still

Margins of January

January lived mostly in the margins this year, between things I did not have the language to name yet. These are the fragments it left behind, unpolished and honest, exactly as they were lived. Margin 1 This city taught me something I didn’t expect. You can live inside beauty…

Read more

Water, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Blame: Reframing Syria’s Food Security Debate

How Hiring Systems Reproduce Geographic Hierarchies of Expertise

Old Doha Port: Water, Pearls, and Heritage

Margins of January