I’m Moaaz Saadsson, a linguistics student, political organizer, and incurable generalist whose life has been shaped by movement - geographical, intellectual, and social. I was born on April 26, 2005, in Egypt, into an Egyptian family, and I spent my childhood moving between countries and cultures: Qatar, the UAE, back to Egypt, then Qatar again, before settling in Sweden in 2018, where I’ve lived ever since. Growing up across the Arab world and later in Northern Europe fundamentally shaped how I see language, identity, power, and belonging.
I’m a native speaker of Egyptian Arabic, English, and Swedish, with working knowledge of Modern Standard Arabic, German, Coptic, and some Italian. I’ve been fascinated by language for as long as I can remember - not just as a tool for communication, but as a social system, a historical artifact, and a political force. My personality type is ENTP-T: curious, idea-driven, energetic, sometimes chaotic, and deeply motivated by understanding systems and connecting people.
Academically, I’m pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics at Stockholm University. Linguistics isn’t just my major; it’s my core intellectual obsession. My interests span Afroasiatic, Semitic, and Indo-European languages, writing systems, and historical linguistics. I’m especially interested in how language change actually works in real communities and how scripts evolve. While I enjoy theory, I’m equally invested in practice - competitions, pedagogy, and community-building.
I was a finalist in the Swedish Linguistics Olympiad in 2022 and 2024, represented Sweden at the International Linguistics Olympiad in 2022 and 2024, and received an honorable mention in the team competition in 2024. Today I’m active as an organizer and board member of the Swedish Linguistics Olympiad and serve on the Ethics Committee of the International Linguistics Olympiad, working on questions of fairness, safeguarding, and institutional responsibility.
Outside the university classroom, I’ve consistently taken on leadership roles. During upper secondary school in Luleå, I served multiple years as a student council representative, later becoming student council president and student safety representative. I’m active in the Stockholm University Student Union, where I serve as an assembly representative and election committee member. Organizing, facilitating meetings, writing policy documents, and navigating democratic processes are things I’ve learned by doing, often under time pressure and with real stakes.
Politically, I identify as a libertarian marxist, radical feminist, anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and internationalist. I’m deeply engaged in left-wing politics in Sweden and in Egypt (in exile), both within and outside party structures. I’ve served on boards and chaired multiple organizations, including Stockholm Academics for Palestine, Framtidens Vänster, Vänsterpartiet and Ung Vänster. My politics are rooted in material analysis, anti-racism, feminism, climate justice, and solidarity with oppressed peoples. I’m critical of capitalism, intellectual property regimes, car dependency, and nationalist narratives, and I strongly believe in popular education, mass movements, and democratic organizing from below.
Alongside academics and politics, I have a long-standing relationship with technology, creative production, and digital culture. I’m a free software enthusiast, a Wikipedia addict, and someone who knows just enough about computers to be dangerous. I have experience with graphic design, audio editing, basic programming, and video editing, and I’m especially interested in game design, modding, and worldbuilding. I’m active in communities around sandbox games, grand strategy games, city builders, and speculative worldbuilding, as well as linguistics-adjacent spaces like conlanging, neography, scripts, and imaginary maps. These interests often intersect: I like building worlds that make linguistic, historical, and political sense.
Creatively, I was formerly active as a rapper and music producer under the name Pyramoe, as part of Desolation Collective, making underground, alternative hip-hop influenced by hyperpop, glitchcore, and drain-adjacent aesthetics. Music remains an important part of my life, both as an expressive outlet and as a technical craft, and I’m still deeply interested in production, sound design, and rap as a cultural form.
On a more personal level, I’m neurodivergent and this shapes how I think, work, and relate to the world. I’m married to the smart beautiful amazing Lina, live in Stockholm, don’t own a car, and strongly support public transit. I’ve traveled across Europe, the Middle East, and beyond - including Brazil and Japan - and I care deeply about history, especially ancient civilizations, Late Antiquity, Islamic history, and alternate history as a way of thinking critically about the present.
I’m a Muslim, I believe in God, and I’m also interested in religion as a historical, social, and anthropological phenomenon. I like cats, skating, caffeine in irresponsible quantities, shawarma, sushi, cheese, and good conversations that spiral into theory. I’m serious about politics and scholarship, but I don’t take myself too seriously. At the core of everything I do - linguistics, organizing, tech, creativity - is curiosity and a commitment to understanding how the world works, why it’s unjust, and how people, collectively, can change it.
Geographic timeline
- 2005: Born in Egypt (April 26, 2005)
- 2006–2011: Lived in Qatar
- 2011–2012: Lived in the UAE
- 2012–2015: Lived in Egypt
- 2015–2017: Lived in Qatar
- 2018–present: Living in Sweden
Countries visited
Egypt, Qatar, UAE, Oman, Turkey, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Denmark, Iceland, UK, Isle of Man, Germany, France, Spain, Brazil, Japan.