Mohammad Alnobani, Tyler Le/BI
- Mohammad Alnobani co-founded a tech startup in the West Bank in 2022.
- Six months into the Israeli-Hamas war in nearby Gaza, Alnobani and his cofounder are relocating to escape the conflict.
- Alnobani said he did not regret founding his company in his homeland and hopes to return someday.
This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Mohammad Alnobani, 34, who cofounded "The Middle Frame," a tech startup based in Ramallah, a city in the Palestinian Territories. The following has been edited for length and clarity.
At around 1 a.m. on October 7, I arrived in Amman, Jordan, on the way back to my home in Jerusalem from a trip to Belfast, where I attended the One Young World Summit.