Writer and Independent Researcher
Mohammad Shehadeh
Manchester-based student exploring linguistics, classical languages and artificial intelligence.
Research, writing and speaking on Translational Justice.
TEDx · 2025
Available now — Amazon
The Manifesto of Translational Justice
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
Translational Justice
My research and writing project on 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 02Project 52
My public correspondence project: one letter to a 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 03The Lexicon Project
A revision platform I created for OCR Latin, Greek, and AQA English Literature — rebuilt for the way students actually study. Word-by-word annotation, AI feedback, one payment.
the-lexicon-project.comTEDx Talk
"The Words I Had to Leave Behind"
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
One letter. One world leader. Every week.
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 LettersPublications & Research
Published by external outlets
Preprints
Accepted, forthcoming
Book and policy work
About
Language.
Meaning.
Justice.
I'm Mohammad Shehadeh — a Manchester-based student, writer and independent researcher interested in linguistics, classical languages, artificial intelligence and Translational Justice.
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.
My writing has appeared in the Refugee Law Initiative blog and Legal Action. In November 2025, I spoke at TEDxTrafford about language and culture. Explore my publications or watch the talk.
Get in touch.
Press. Collaboration. Research. Letters.
shehadehmohammad099@gmail.com