Aisha Alsayegh

What Floods Leave Behind: Dev Patel on Disaster, Adaptation, and the Economics of Resilience

My own research asks what happens to children's education when disaster strikes. So when Dev Patel walked into the seminar room at Tufts in October 2025 with satellite imagery, twenty years of flood data, and a question I had been circling in my own research, I was paying

Blown Off Course: An Introduction

In September 2026, I begin a PhD in economics at [I'll tell you later]. This is not where I expected to be. For sixteen years I worked in finance in Kuwait. I understood markets from the inside, the way you understand something when your job depends on getting