Daoud Ghannam 🇵🇸

Muslim Entrepreneur

[Daoud Ghannam 🇵🇸 @Daoudg_]

@mohmadmoe34995 Proud of you, This is a great start in your product building journey! Best of luck my man.

[Daoud Ghannam 🇵🇸 @Daoudg_]

@yousef_ki1 .

[محمد صالح المنجد @almonajjid]

الوفاء بالعهد:
قال تعالى: {وَأَوْفُوا بِالْعَهْدِ إِنَّ الْعَهْدَ كَانَ مَسْئُولًا} [الإسراء: 34]
وقال تعالى: {وَأَوْفُوا بِعَهْدِ اللَّهِ إِذَا عَاهَدْتُمْ} [النحل: 91]
والعهد نوعان:
1. عهد مع الله، وهو قسمان:
أ. عهد مع الله فيما يتقرّب به إليه، كما لو عاهد الله على ترك محرم أو فعل واجب، فهذا بمعنى النذر، وهو يمين وعهد، ولا بد من الوفاء به، وكما لو عاهد الله على فعل مستحب، فهو واجب الأداء.
ب. عهد مع الله يقصد به حثّ نفسه أو منعها من شيء، كما لو عاهد الله ألا يكلم زيدا، فهذا بمعنى اليمين.
2. عهد مع الناس:
كالمعاهدة بين المسلمين والكفار، ومعاهدة الأئمة، والمعاهدة في العقود، كالبيع والنكاح ونحوها، فيجب الوفاء بها ما دام المشروط مباحا فأعلى.
ومن عاهد أحدًا بالله وغدر، فقد ارتكب إثمًا عظيمًا.

[Faris Al Hammadi @FarisHammadi]

Whenever Allah closes a door for His servant with His wisdom, He opens two doors for him with His mercy.

— Ibn al-Qayyim

[Daoud Ghannam 🇵🇸 @Daoudg_]

@Dr_alqarnee لا تبتعد عن خالقك

[نبيل علي العوضي @NabilAlawadhy]

(أَلَا إِنَّ أَوْلِيَاءَ اللَّهِ لَا خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ * الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَكَانُوا يَتَّقُونَ * لَهُمُ الْبُشْرَى فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَفِي الْآخِرَةِ)

[Daoud Ghannam 🇵🇸 @Daoudg_]

@danawhite @bullyb170 ينصر دينك

[Daoud Ghannam 🇵🇸 @Daoudg_]

As a Palestinian, what is happening to our people everyday never made me weaker, but forces me to work harder to create a greater brighter reality for us all.

[Susan Sarandon @SusanSarandon]

The IDF's war crimes are a perfect reflection of Israeli society https://t.co/o6HTL0XzqD

[Paul Graham @paulg]

According to the latest Gallup poll, only 36% of Americans approve of Israel's actions in Gaza. Why is Biden so eager to support something that the majority of Americans are against?

[Daoud Ghannam 🇵🇸 @Daoudg_]

@tambi_jalouqa When will you be there?

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

Jensen Huang on how to structure a company.

[@jason @Jason]

Greatness comes from suffering — have truer words ever been spoken?

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Oxford surgeon Professor Nick Maynard on what he saw in Gaza:

[Daoud Ghannam 🇵🇸 @Daoudg_]

Join Startup Palestine Dubai Gathering this Thursday 18:30, to come together as a community and support local Palestinian entrepreneurs, limited seats, RSVP here:
https://t.co/zkBwUYxfab

[Daoud Ghannam 🇵🇸 @Daoudg_]

@tambi_jalouqa @huthaifa

[Fadi Quran @fadiquran]

We’re watching narrative warfare at its finest, and most cold hearted.

My hypothesis is that the cutting of UNRWA funds, at this moment, is at least in part a narrative distraction.

Everyone’s eyes were focused on the fact that the world’s court confirmed that it is plausible Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The evidence was read on live TV to millions. Israel was ordered to prevent genocide.

Biden and Bibi needed to change the topic fast - and what better path than targeting UNRWA and connecting it back to October 7th.

Shift to every main news outlet and that’s now the leading topic.

Of course the reasoning is absurd, 12 out of 13,000 employees, who have been fired, were found to have participated in violence.

This is akin to cutting all funding to the US education system because a dozen teachers were found to be abusive. It is collective punishment.

[Fadi Quran @fadiquran]

Driving in Palestine now is more dangerous than ever.

Yesterday, I drove from Ramallah to Dura, a village near Hebron to attend the funeral of Ahed, my friend’s baby sister, who had just become a mother. She was shot by an Israeli sniper. A heartbreaking loss.

If I could use Israel’s apartheid roads designated for settlers, it would be an 80-90 minute drive, but it took me 4 hours.

Why?

First, we’re forced to take segregated Palestinian only roads which make it a 2.5 hour drive because of checkpoints.

But these days, it’s even worse as Israel has imposed an even more strict strangulation policy over the West Bank, which means even some of those segregated roads are blocked and there are 10 times as many checkpoints.

Taking this drive outside our village/cities of residence is extremely dangerous for three reasons:

1. *Settler attacks*: Israeli settlers are in rampage mode, and you don’t know when you could get hit by a rock or bullet from one of their raging mobs.

2. *Soldiers at the end of a wrong turn*: There are no signs for what “roads” are currently opened or closed for us, you have to guess or stop to ask locals every few miles. If you make a wrong turn and end up face to face with soldiers, they can shoot you, and claim you attacked them.

3. *Arrests for social media posts*: If you’re stopped at a checkpoint, soldiers these days are taking folks’ phones and checking their WhatsApp’s and telegram and instagram. If you have a message standing in solidarity with Gaza, or anything the Israeli soldiers see as offensive, they’ll beat you to a pulp, and could even arrest you. My friend Diala, a human rights lawyer, was just arrested at one of these checkpoints this evening. We don’t know why, but it likely relates to her work and messages they found on her phone about it.

On my end, driving back at night was a nightmare, mainly because I had a friend in the car and was worried about him.

As we drove back, these historically busy streets were ghostly empty because nobody is taking the risk of driving at night unless necessary.

Every turn I’d take, I’d slow down to a crawl to make sure there was no trigger happy soldier or angry settler ready to pounce.

I got lucky as, although we waited at a checkpoint for an hour, the soldiers got bored and literally opened the checkpoint for all the cars to pass without any security check — proof they’re using these checkpoints arbitrarily as collective punishment.

In Dura, I saw where Ahed was shot.

The soldiers had stormed her village as part of their intimidation tactics in the West Bank to keep people anxious. Ahed ran to her roof to warn her husband to come home. An Israeli sniper shot her in the head.

As I drove home, thinking of Ahed, her heart broken family, the families of my friends in Gaza, all the souls we’ve lost, and how easy my life could be taken for simply driving across my ancestral lands to help my friend in her grief.

It shouldn’t have to be said, but our lives are precious. They’re beautiful. They’re equally worthy of joy and basic dignity.

I’m committed to one day being able to drive across my people’s ancestral land a free man, surrounded by my liberated people.

If Israel’s death machine is haunting us around every corner, we might as well live fighting for a life worth dying for.

[Tambi Jalouqa @tambi_jalouqa]

Why you should avoid donor funding

If you are building a venture scale startup, please avoid donor funding.

The whole purpose of donor funding is to focus on areas the private market are not focusing on. They should give that helping hand to the poor business women living outside the main city and start her home business.

But venture capital is a different way of doing business.

It’s about building innovation and distribution and living on the cutting edge of technology.

Not dealing with “beneficiaries” and gender equality and allocation to rural cities, etc.

Those are pre-startup concerns. On a national level indeed where you can put that money into education, infrastructure, up-skilling, digital transformation of government and more.

I advise everyone to stop taking donor funding for anything related to venture. World bank, EBRD, GIZ, are all great efforts by entities that want to do impact.

But that doesn’t bode well with venture that’s all.

And you have so much to deal with as a founder. Markets, competitors, team, technology and sales. Don’t add new concerns that will have zero impact on you business.

Don’t become an item on someone’s checklist. Helping them meet their KPIs of deployment.

Become a line item in a great business’s budget!

[Rev Laskaris @REVMAXXING]

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