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Omar Darwazah

Omar is a Managing Director and General Partner at AAF Management Ltd. (AAF), an early-stage venture capital firm he co-founded in 2016. AAF invests in top tier venture-backed pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A investment opportunities in US-based startups as well as global early-stage emerging managers. The firm currently has over $180M in assets under management.Omar holds a BA in Economics and Political Science with Honors from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.  He was named as one of Wharton’s 40 under 40 in 2017 and one of the Top 100 University of Chicago Alumni in Tech in 2021.

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Warrick, Joby. Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America’s Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World

Warrick, Joby. Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America’s Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Joby Warrick’s  Red Line  is true-life thriller, which explores the United States’ scramble to neutralize war-torn Syria’s chemi-cal weapons. The book is a fast-paced, non-fiction character-driven narrative with…
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Picketty, Thomas. Capital and Ideology Book Review.

Picketty, Thomas. Capital and Ideology Book Review.

In his  Magnum Opus ,  Capital and Ideology , Thomas Piketty argues that rising inequality is explained by politics, not economics. He proposes that to alleviate this rising inequality, radical…
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Hanieh, Adam. Money, Markets and Monarchies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Hanieh, Adam. Money, Markets and Monarchies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018

In his book,  Money, Markets and Monarchies , Adam Hanieh illustrates the impor-tant role the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has played in the Middle East (ME) and the world stage.…
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