Researcher · Author · Advocate
Mohammad Shehadeh
Language shapes the world.
Right now, I study one place it decides lives.
TEDx · 2025
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Researcher · Author · Advocate
Language shapes the world.
Right now, I study one place it decides lives.
TEDx · 2025
Coming soon — Amazon
A reckoning with how language shapes power — in courtrooms, in code, in asylum interviews, and in the quiet corrections your phone makes without asking.
trans·la·tion /tranzˈleɪʃn/ noun
1. the act of rendering from one language to another
2. a version in another language
3. never innocent
Work
Field research into how language shapes outcomes for the people inside systems. Right now, the focus is asylum: interpretation, credibility, and what gets recorded as truth.
translationaljustice.com 02One letter. One world leader. Every week, for 52 weeks. A year-long act of direct address — demanding accountability from the people who hold power.
project52letters.netlify.app 03OCR Latin, Greek, and AQA English Literature revision — rebuilt for the way students actually study. Word-by-word annotation, AI feedback, one payment.
the-lexicon-project.comTEDx Talk
A talk on what happens to meaning when it crosses the systems designed to carry it — and how those systems can turn language into evidence, doubt, power, or loss.
Watch on YouTubeProject 52
For 52 weeks, I am writing directly to a world leader — heads of state, international bodies, people with the power to act when language is used to exclude, misread, or decide. Each letter is public. Each one is a record.
Read the LettersAbout
I'm Mohammad Shehadeh — a researcher, author, and advocate based in the UK. I'm 15.
My work starts from a single conviction: language is not neutral. It does not just describe the world; it helps make it. It can turn speech into evidence, accent into suspicion, translation into legal record, and silence into a conclusion.
Translational Justice is my attempt to document that, systematically. Right now, my focus is one specific site where language carries extraordinary power: the asylum system, where interpretation and credibility can shape whether a person is believed. The book is the argument. The case files are the evidence. Project 52 is the demand. The Lexicon Project is what I built in the meantime.
I gave a TEDx talk on it. I've published in academic law blogs. I'm still in school.
Press. Collaboration. Research. Letters.
shehadehmohammad099@gmail.com