Alaa Al Sayegh: Change Pathways Under Fake Democracies
2022 Fellow Spotlight Series — This talk was recorded for the Draper Hills Summer Fellows Program at Stanford University in 2022.
Alaa Al Sayegh is a political activist and social innovator who works on conceptualizing and implementing tools to solve political and socio-economic issues in Lebanon and the Middle East.
Alaa is the Co-founder and Director of Growth and Innovation at "The Solidarity Directory," a social innovation lab that supports solidarity initiatives, collectives, and MSMEs and conducts research with the aim of empowering local communities in their resilience economically and socially. Alaa plays a leading role in the independent and secular political movement in Lebanon. Since 2015, he took part in mobilizing and organizing several grassroots structures and actively engaged in nationwide protests, lectures, and public debates. Being an agent for change, he ran for parliamentary elections in 2022, representing the alternative voice. He proposed a clear vision and reforms toward a secular, just, and democratic Lebanon.