Lena Sergi Attar

Founder & CEO, Karam Foundation · 1 appearance on the record.

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In 2007, she founded the Karam Foundation to provide innovative education, leadership initiatives, and humanitarian relief for displaced Syrian youth and families. Trained as an architect, her commentary and essays on the Syrian crisis have appeared in outlets including The New York Times, Foreign Policy, and The Atlantic.

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3 assertions · 2 opinions · 2 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Lena argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Attar: Syrian refugees reaching Europe are predominantly educated middle class

“The further away you get from Syria, the more you see that it's really Syria's middle class that was able to flee into Europe, something that people don't realize watching The images of Syrian refugees arriving to Europe, which is an extremely difficult journe…”

Lena Sergi Attar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:19 a16z Podcast | Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Attar: The global Syrian refugee count was zero before 2011

“People don't realize that before 2011, the number of Syrian refugees was zero”

Lena Sergi Attar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:40 a16z Podcast | Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis

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What they said8 Episodes1

Everything Lena Sergi Attar said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion

Attar: Humanitarian aid apps and tech innovation hype are largely meaningless

“The word innovation or, you know, apps Yes, for humanitarian aid have become almost meaningless because everybody thinks that they can create an app and it's going to solve the problem, or we can paste the word innovation on anything, and that basically become…”

Lena Sergi Attar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:12 a16z Podcast | Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis

Insight

Attar: Teaching kids to code is not a blanket refugee solution

“The solution is not in teaching kids how to code. The solution is how do you introduce Syrian refugee kids or any group of kids To the concept of coding in a way that it connects them to passions that they might use in the future to, or not use, depending on w…”

Lena Sergi Attar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:02 a16z Podcast | Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis

Assertion Supported

Attar: Syrian refugees reaching Europe are predominantly educated middle class

Lena Sergi Attar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:19 a16z Podcast | Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis

Opinion

Attar: The smartphone is the most important possession refugees carry

“Refugees, the most important object that they have is their smartphone.”

Lena Sergi Attar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:26 a16z Podcast | Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis

Insight

Attar: The most innovative refugee solutions come from refugees themselves

“The most innovative solutions are coming from the people themselves, and this is what we're seeing in the media with, like, the feel-good stories of refugees who've made it in Germany or made it in the U.S. And brought pieces of their culture, and now they're …”

Lena Sergi Attar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:36 a16z Podcast | Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis

Assertion Partly supported

Attar: Over half of Syria's original population is now displaced

“We have over five million Syrian refugees outside the country, over six million internally displaced, which means that there are more than half of the original population of Syria now does not live in their homes.”

Lena Sergi Attar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:21 a16z Podcast | Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis

Assertion Contradicted

Attar: The global Syrian refugee count was zero before 2011

“People don't realize that before 2011, the number of Syrian refugees was zero”

Lena Sergi Attar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:40 a16z Podcast | Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis

Disclosure

Attar: Displaced Syrian families rely on WhatsApp groups to stay connected

“I don't know any Syrian family, including my own, that doesn't have their family WhatsApp group, because that's the only way that you can actually see each other because people don't meet each other anymore inside Syria.”

Lena Sergi Attar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:28 a16z Podcast | Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis

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