Fellow
Current Country
Senegal 🇸🇳
Current City
Dakar
What have you been going through and experiencing?
I have been going through a lot of grief and remorse in relation to my mom, yet I have also been feeling so many emotions of gratitude, frustration, self-compassion, celebration. I am becoming more in-touch with my full spectrum of feelings.
April 1, 2026
Intuition
Cultivating inner knowing
A question currently animating me about the inner life/spirit is:
How do I love myself even more?
April 1, 2026
A question currently animating me about the outer world/universe/multiverse is:
What ways can I start consistently sharing and giving love out to the world?
April 1, 2026
The practices I’m finding most helpful at the moment are:
Journaling
April 1, 2026
A moment I noticed my inner light kindled this month was:
I am learning to trust in motion. Going outside, even if I feel horrible on a specific day, usually pays off and leads me to new people and places. I am happy that I am learning how to get myself out of ruts and ask for help rather than try to figure them out on my own.
April 1, 2026
A moment I noticed my inner light dwindled this month was:
I have continued this habit I hold of procrastinating important logistics like visa applications, accommodation bookings, travel planning, etc, and it ends up stressing me out. It isperhaps what is currently my worst form of self-sabotage and I need help to stop doing so.
April 1, 2026
Courage
Aligning action
Assumptions I'm examining right now are:
Happiness
April 1, 2026
I originally assumed:
I had assumed that it was easier to attain, specifically through checking things off a to-do list.
April 1, 2026
These assumptions are changing:
I am learning to accept that I will not always be happy and that I still need to show up for myself and sustain what healthy practices I hold. I am also trying to accept my full range of emotions, a more so sustained handshake practice. shout out Adam, I miss guided meditation.
April 1, 2026
A moment I stepped out of my comfort zone this month was:
SO MANY TIMES! I have asked so many people to have dinner at their place or to couch surf with them or to tag along with them on trips. I am realizing people genuinely conspire for what is best for me, I have had an insane success rate.
April 1, 2026
Compassion
Engaged Empathy
Something that is helping me build trusting relationships here is:
Reaching out to people through the Storytellers to-dos, but sustaining conversations after!
April 1, 2026
Digital Detox Retreat
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Being intentionally away from technology and distractions has taught me:
Patience. Prescence. Perception. November might have just been one of the best months of my life. I have dedicated hours of my time to walking, riding a bike, being in nature, being with new people, and I feel very new, and that I owe to directing my focus elsewhere!
December 3, 2025
Gratitude
Peers I'm grateful for:
Ruan Vitor Cordeiro da Silva
Thank you for being so supportive and sweet! I am learning so much from you and your spontaneity!
April 1, 2026
Naomi Løvstad Wettstein
Thank you SO MUCH for your genuine curiosity and excitement when it comes to getting to know people, it is actually so refreshing and I am learning so many things from you <3
February 1, 2026
Tristan Herrero Picard
MY ABSOLUTE GOAT!!! Thank you for being so friendly and open all the time, just genuinely good vibes. I am so happy I am getting to know you <3
November 1, 2025
Owen Dornan
Hi Owen! We haven't interacted much, but I wanted to lyk that I always look forward to the questions you ask in Courageous Conversations! They're intuitive and genuinely help me think the lessons through, I'd say you've definitely mastered the lost art of question-asking ahahah!
October 19, 2025
Anna Ufaeva
Hi Anna!
It's genuinely amazing to see you show up in so many spaces in The Flight School, even as you navigate loads of transition and uncertainty in your own personal life. You seem so grounded and ambitious, and it's always genuinely heartwarming to see! Keep being Anna :D
October 2, 2025
Zawadi Rangala
Hi Zawadi!! Thank you for being genuinely proactive and interested in getting to know me through co-creation. I will definitely be taking a page out of your book as I found it quite admirable and kind! I genuinely look forward to creating alongside you :)
September 10, 2025
Kashimani Simasiku
Your proactivity thus far in being steps ahead of the program in planning for Japan, but also checking in on me and helping me when I miss a session, has genuinely meant a lot and is inspiring me to push myself to do more. Always a pleasure and always grateful <3
August 1, 2025
Peers who have expressed gratitude for me:
Ruan Vitor Cordeiro da Silva
Zeiad, our conversations have brought so much joy. I'm so admired by everything, by the way you share yourself in new environments, and by the amount of courage, care, and effort you always bring into those spaces. You are like a lighthouse to me.
April 2, 2026
Meirav Roisman
Zeiad your friendship has rapidly become one of the most important to me this year. I feel as though I know and trust you so much, but it’s strange because we haven’t ever really met. I’m so proud of how far we have come, and I’m so excited for where we will go.
April 2, 2026
Aissata N'Diade
I am proud of the progress he's made and the growth he's experiencing at TFS
March 5, 2026
Naomi Løvstad Wettstein
Im back again to give you a gratitude. We did end up talking this month. You blew me away during our first call that was 4 hours long. Feeling such Immidiate animation connection spark joy is rare. I catch myself wishing for notifications from you. AAaAaaAA wow thank you wowow<3
January 25, 2026
Naomi Løvstad Wettstein
Zeiad. I appreciate your attention, your presence, your love. I wish to chat with you soon. I see so much light in you. I wonder what may be under this light. What animates you and how can I support you. Call me soon<3
December 1, 2025
Nana Adwoa Agyemang
It's been so awesome getting to know you more in our Friday Sessions and learning more about you and your journey :)
November 28, 2025
Meirav Roisman
Hey man, thank you so much for responding and putting time into our friendship. I know it's hard, but I feel like we think kind of the same, and just like I feel like I need someone to keep reaching out and bugging me, when I bug you, you always respond, so thank you.
November 4, 2025
Tristan Herrero Picard
I'm very happy to have talked to you more this month!! Our conversations were fun and helped me reflect on my experience and get excited about my next travel! You're a cool guy. Let's keep calling from time to time.
October 31, 2025
Douglas Teixeira de Queiroz Santos
Our call was such a highlight of my week. It so great finally get to know you better - and I was so happy we set the challenge of the no-yapping galery post! I am always grateful for your contributions in the session, all the best and lots of love!
October 29, 2025
Zawadi Rangala
Thank you so much for your warmth and openness, and for leading the Courageous Conversations with me. I’m really inspired by the way you speak/carry yourself and how you bring that same depth/heart into your art. Keep exploring, keep creating, keep being unapologetically YOU!
October 6, 2025
Kashimani Simasiku
Thank you so much for being an amazing friend during the month of September. I have come to find you a confidant, and I have been able to share my struggles during my visa process, and you have been a huge support during that time, and I am truly grateful.
September 29, 2025
Magical Moments
Ngor Island's Moving Band
Ngor Island
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Mar 29, 2026
While searching for a woodworker who was going to gift me a marimba, I heard drums being played and walked in their direction. I stumbled upon our flutist Geoffrey, dancer Katalia, guitarist w/o a guitar Teo, and became the Djembe drummer myself! We walked around the island playing music and then went back to Geoffrey's place for tea and talk.
I was so anxious at first and immediately regretted saying that I had ever played drums. I felt like I was about to be exposed for the amateur I was, and that indeed happened! But it was wonderful!
Through simple rhythms and trial and error, we played a few different Congolese and French songs on our island tour. We tried to do the Lion King theme!
Visited the new Grand Egyptian Museum AND THE PYRAMIDS!
Giza
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Feb 28, 2026
After a lifetime of being asked about the pyramids having never even visited them, I finally got to see the most remarkable thing about my country, 3 shrines in all their basking glory. I honestly get the hype now :)
It was part of visiting the recently opened GEM alongside my sister. I also got to learn about some of Ancient Egypt's history which I am admittedly clueless about.
Tea & Talk !
Sohar
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Aug 23, 2025
I spent a week in Oman with my father in the month of August. Not having much to do whatsoever throughout the week, we unintentionally spent almost 4 hours in this beautiful tea shop we had visited. We got to talk about everything from his work and my gap year to favorite movies and politics. It is not often I get the opportunity or space to connect with my dad so it was quite wholesome and I was grateful afterwards :D
The fourth photo was on the morning of the day before and it's definitely my favorite capture from the month :P
unexpectedly left behind a legacy, had more of an impact than I had thought...
Al-Beheira
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Sep 20, 2025
It's fulfilling knowing you're still remembered when you leave a place important to you.
ALA wasn't the easiest of times for me; it had its ups and downs, but since grad, I have repeatedly tried distancing myself from it.
A week-ish ago, I received a message with a Google Doc from one of my juniors, whom I was always close to. A draft of an assignment to write a letter to HIS juniors to give them advice, as they are at the very dawn of a two-year journey.
Lo and behold, right there, as the very opening words of the letter he wrote, my words. A quote from a short film I had made about my anxieties before graduation, yet apparently, it touched one more heart than I knew. <3.
How Zeiad Stole Christmas
Kobe
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Nov 22, 2025
I have never spent a December in a country that celebrates Christmas. Luckily for me, Japan has started decorating everything merrily since October, and I have loved all of it.
The music everywhere. The red and green color scheme. People stopping in many random places to take pictures, it is just warm and awesome!
I got my host an Advent calendar as a gift, and one of my housemates/friends pointed out that it is a Muslim giving a Buddhist a Christian holiday gift, which is quite neat :D
Overall, I have genuinely felt like Peter Quill in The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special when he gets to witness Christmas for the very first time. I did tear up hearing jingle bells live ahahah
Shrines & Metros, Fireworks & Nature,
Osaka
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Oct 18, 2025
This feels like cheating, but I cannot pinpoint one magical moment, so I am choosing photography and capturing many moments. In the spirit of trying new things and being bad at them, I have been trying to do mixed media collages purely for fun and to practice something creative that's not too time-consuming, and it has been quite neat.
The chaos of the image above is from three of the most magical moments I've had in Osaka thus far. Visiting the Fushimi-Inari Taisho shrine in Kyoto, attending the annual Yodogawa fireworks festival, and an ode to my love for public transportation here in Japan. My plan is to create and post a lot more in November, sooo fingers are thoroughly crossed :)