Dilek Sayedahmed
@dileksayedahmed.bsky.social
Market Design Economist gone rogue | Sr. Economic Policy Advisor at WAGE & EIC ✨ One of those academic types who prefers books over people✌🏾 Elaine Benes of economics 🙋🏽♀️
Sadly, I'm ashamed to say, I'm here, but for now: https://dileksay2.substack.com
Sadly, I'm ashamed to say, I'm here, but for now: https://dileksay2.substack.com
My dear colleagues at the Association for Nonprofit and Social Economy Research is organizing a spectacular event.
Join us on Thursday, February 26 for our Webinar: From Lived Experience to Shared Futures: Storytelling as Social Infrastructure - Conflict, Care, and Community.
Join us on Thursday, February 26 for our Webinar: From Lived Experience to Shared Futures: Storytelling as Social Infrastructure - Conflict, Care, and Community.
February 12, 2026 at 11:54 AM
My dear colleagues at the Association for Nonprofit and Social Economy Research is organizing a spectacular event.
Join us on Thursday, February 26 for our Webinar: From Lived Experience to Shared Futures: Storytelling as Social Infrastructure - Conflict, Care, and Community.
Join us on Thursday, February 26 for our Webinar: From Lived Experience to Shared Futures: Storytelling as Social Infrastructure - Conflict, Care, and Community.
As I struggle and suffer with editing multiple manuscripts, this is what I am going back:
February 12, 2026 at 9:20 AM
As I struggle and suffer with editing multiple manuscripts, this is what I am going back:
Chères personnes au Canada, mon cœur est avec vous. Une vigile est prévue demain à l’Ambassade du Canada en France—n’hésitez pas à passer quand vous le souhaitez. Tout le monde est le bienvenu. J’y serai.
Le drapeau est en berne. Nous présentons nos plus sincères condoléances à toutes et à tous.
Le drapeau est en berne. Nous présentons nos plus sincères condoléances à toutes et à tous.
February 11, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Chères personnes au Canada, mon cœur est avec vous. Une vigile est prévue demain à l’Ambassade du Canada en France—n’hésitez pas à passer quand vous le souhaitez. Tout le monde est le bienvenu. J’y serai.
Le drapeau est en berne. Nous présentons nos plus sincères condoléances à toutes et à tous.
Le drapeau est en berne. Nous présentons nos plus sincères condoléances à toutes et à tous.
To all people of Canada: my heart is with you. A vigil will be held tomorrow at the Embassy of Canada in France; please feel free to stop by at any time. All are welcome, no matter where you call home. I will be there.
The flag is at half-mast. We extend our deepest condolences to everyone.
The flag is at half-mast. We extend our deepest condolences to everyone.
February 11, 2026 at 3:51 PM
To all people of Canada: my heart is with you. A vigil will be held tomorrow at the Embassy of Canada in France; please feel free to stop by at any time. All are welcome, no matter where you call home. I will be there.
The flag is at half-mast. We extend our deepest condolences to everyone.
The flag is at half-mast. We extend our deepest condolences to everyone.
Oh yes baby! 🫡 My students are thrilled by this new addition to the syllabus. The first discussion has been fire.
February 11, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Oh yes baby! 🫡 My students are thrilled by this new addition to the syllabus. The first discussion has been fire.
The plum you're going to eat next summer by Gayle Brandeis.
When poetry is medicinal therapeutic meditation.
Bon mercredi!
When poetry is medicinal therapeutic meditation.
Bon mercredi!
February 11, 2026 at 9:05 AM
The plum you're going to eat next summer by Gayle Brandeis.
When poetry is medicinal therapeutic meditation.
Bon mercredi!
When poetry is medicinal therapeutic meditation.
Bon mercredi!
Actual footage of me whenever I post on here among you wise wonderful brilliant inspirational scholars and journalists and analysts
Aaand this économiste gal is comme ça:
Aaand this économiste gal is comme ça:
February 10, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Actual footage of me whenever I post on here among you wise wonderful brilliant inspirational scholars and journalists and analysts
Aaand this économiste gal is comme ça:
Aaand this économiste gal is comme ça:
As David Bollier and Silke Helfrich brilliantly state in their epic book Free, Fair, and Alive: the commons is a social form that enables people to enjoy freedom without repressing others, enact fairness without bureaucratic control and assert sovereignty without nationalism.
February 10, 2026 at 10:16 AM
As David Bollier and Silke Helfrich brilliantly state in their epic book Free, Fair, and Alive: the commons is a social form that enables people to enjoy freedom without repressing others, enact fairness without bureaucratic control and assert sovereignty without nationalism.
The new book of SOAS University of London's Feminist Centre for Racial Justice is out now!
And I am honored to be featured in Chapter 3. Love as Defiance with my letter to Rima Hassan.
Happy reading! Bon lundi tout le monde!
Full copy of the book in PDF format here:
And I am honored to be featured in Chapter 3. Love as Defiance with my letter to Rima Hassan.
Happy reading! Bon lundi tout le monde!
Full copy of the book in PDF format here:
February 9, 2026 at 11:02 AM
The new book of SOAS University of London's Feminist Centre for Racial Justice is out now!
And I am honored to be featured in Chapter 3. Love as Defiance with my letter to Rima Hassan.
Happy reading! Bon lundi tout le monde!
Full copy of the book in PDF format here:
And I am honored to be featured in Chapter 3. Love as Defiance with my letter to Rima Hassan.
Happy reading! Bon lundi tout le monde!
Full copy of the book in PDF format here:
Western leaders appear newly jittery only because of Greenland—because, for the first time, they find themselves on the short end of the stick. Welcome, I suppose, to the world you helped build.
January 22, 2026 at 7:15 AM
Western leaders appear newly jittery only because of Greenland—because, for the first time, they find themselves on the short end of the stick. Welcome, I suppose, to the world you helped build.
Bonjour hi. So, we saw Hamnet tonight. Évidemment, I read the novel by Maggie O’Farrell a while back—an extraordinary book. The story is, at its core, about grief, so of course I wept.
January 18, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Bonjour hi. So, we saw Hamnet tonight. Évidemment, I read the novel by Maggie O’Farrell a while back—an extraordinary book. The story is, at its core, about grief, so of course I wept.
I cannot get over this excellent reportage by Lisa Goldman.
West Bank Palestinians face limited employment opportunities, relying heavily on Israel. The Israeli government’s actions, potentially inciting unrest, are impacting both Palestinians and Israelis.
newlinesmag.com/reportage/wh...
West Bank Palestinians face limited employment opportunities, relying heavily on Israel. The Israeli government’s actions, potentially inciting unrest, are impacting both Palestinians and Israelis.
newlinesmag.com/reportage/wh...
January 11, 2026 at 7:16 PM
I cannot get over this excellent reportage by Lisa Goldman.
West Bank Palestinians face limited employment opportunities, relying heavily on Israel. The Israeli government’s actions, potentially inciting unrest, are impacting both Palestinians and Israelis.
newlinesmag.com/reportage/wh...
West Bank Palestinians face limited employment opportunities, relying heavily on Israel. The Israeli government’s actions, potentially inciting unrest, are impacting both Palestinians and Israelis.
newlinesmag.com/reportage/wh...
Iranian activists and pro-democracy organizations are suffering under right-wing attacks, while hardliners in the regime benefit.
By the ever-excellent Alex Shams:
www.bostonreview.net/articles/our...
By the ever-excellent Alex Shams:
www.bostonreview.net/articles/our...
January 11, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Iranian activists and pro-democracy organizations are suffering under right-wing attacks, while hardliners in the regime benefit.
By the ever-excellent Alex Shams:
www.bostonreview.net/articles/our...
By the ever-excellent Alex Shams:
www.bostonreview.net/articles/our...
I just finished reading Georgi Gospodinov's Time Shelter and I am not okay.
“I no longer remember who said that a nation was a group of people who have agreed to jointly remember and forget the same things.” Georgi Gospodinov.
“I no longer remember who said that a nation was a group of people who have agreed to jointly remember and forget the same things.” Georgi Gospodinov.
December 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I just finished reading Georgi Gospodinov's Time Shelter and I am not okay.
“I no longer remember who said that a nation was a group of people who have agreed to jointly remember and forget the same things.” Georgi Gospodinov.
“I no longer remember who said that a nation was a group of people who have agreed to jointly remember and forget the same things.” Georgi Gospodinov.
let them not say
December 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
let them not say
I am in Baldwin state of mind these days:
“I can't be a pessimist because I am alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So, I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive, whatever we must survive.”
“I can't be a pessimist because I am alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So, I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive, whatever we must survive.”
December 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I am in Baldwin state of mind these days:
“I can't be a pessimist because I am alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So, I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive, whatever we must survive.”
“I can't be a pessimist because I am alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So, I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive, whatever we must survive.”
Cash Investigation gained access to Bernard Arnault's tax records. Last night's revelations confirm what academic research on billionaires has already established: the ultra-rich pay little or no income tax due to their systematic use of holding companies. 🧵👇🏾
December 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Cash Investigation gained access to Bernard Arnault's tax records. Last night's revelations confirm what academic research on billionaires has already established: the ultra-rich pay little or no income tax due to their systematic use of holding companies. 🧵👇🏾
reading Mary Oliver is like a hug.
I hope this one finds you gently, dear reader.
I hope this one finds you gently, dear reader.
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
reading Mary Oliver is like a hug.
I hope this one finds you gently, dear reader.
I hope this one finds you gently, dear reader.
I Woke Up
and it was political.
I made coffee and the coffee was political.
I took a shower and the water was.
— by Jameson Fitzpatrick.
and it was political.
I made coffee and the coffee was political.
I took a shower and the water was.
— by Jameson Fitzpatrick.
November 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I Woke Up
and it was political.
I made coffee and the coffee was political.
I took a shower and the water was.
— by Jameson Fitzpatrick.
and it was political.
I made coffee and the coffee was political.
I took a shower and the water was.
— by Jameson Fitzpatrick.
Elana Leopold, executive director.
Maria Torres-Springer, the former first deputy mayor.
Lina Khan, the former federal trade commission chair.
United Way's president and CEO, Grace Bonilla.
Former deputy mayor for health and human services Melanie Hartzog.
That’s it. I am sending in my CV. ✅
Maria Torres-Springer, the former first deputy mayor.
Lina Khan, the former federal trade commission chair.
United Way's president and CEO, Grace Bonilla.
Former deputy mayor for health and human services Melanie Hartzog.
That’s it. I am sending in my CV. ✅
November 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Elana Leopold, executive director.
Maria Torres-Springer, the former first deputy mayor.
Lina Khan, the former federal trade commission chair.
United Way's president and CEO, Grace Bonilla.
Former deputy mayor for health and human services Melanie Hartzog.
That’s it. I am sending in my CV. ✅
Maria Torres-Springer, the former first deputy mayor.
Lina Khan, the former federal trade commission chair.
United Way's president and CEO, Grace Bonilla.
Former deputy mayor for health and human services Melanie Hartzog.
That’s it. I am sending in my CV. ✅
Sir. Can I send in my CV?
🤩😮💨🤌🏾❤️🔥
🤩😮💨🤌🏾❤️🔥
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Sir. Can I send in my CV?
🤩😮💨🤌🏾❤️🔥
🤩😮💨🤌🏾❤️🔥
But when the target is someone like Zohran Mamdani—when the person is Muslim, and unapologetically so—the standards shift. The hostility becomes normalized. The racism is recast as “political debate.” The dehumanization becomes permissible. Casually normal.
November 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
But when the target is someone like Zohran Mamdani—when the person is Muslim, and unapologetically so—the standards shift. The hostility becomes normalized. The racism is recast as “political debate.” The dehumanization becomes permissible. Casually normal.
The backlash would be immediate: legal consequences, public condemnation from every sector, and institutional statements denouncing the harm.
November 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The backlash would be immediate: legal consequences, public condemnation from every sector, and institutional statements denouncing the harm.
But it still needs to be named plainly and called out, urgently.
Because imagine, for a moment, if the same language, insinuations, and smear tactics were directed at a public figure associated with another faith or community. It’s almost impossible to picture.
Because imagine, for a moment, if the same language, insinuations, and smear tactics were directed at a public figure associated with another faith or community. It’s almost impossible to picture.
November 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
But it still needs to be named plainly and called out, urgently.
Because imagine, for a moment, if the same language, insinuations, and smear tactics were directed at a public figure associated with another faith or community. It’s almost impossible to picture.
Because imagine, for a moment, if the same language, insinuations, and smear tactics were directed at a public figure associated with another faith or community. It’s almost impossible to picture.