Majd Al-shihabi StoryEngine Interview
Follow this link for the full conversation between Christine Prefontaine and Majd Al-shihabi, reflecting on his work and experiences as a Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellow. Below is an introduction and links about Majd’s work.
Majd Al-shihabi, the the inaugural Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellow, is a Palestinian-Syrian systems design engineer focusing on the role of technology in urban systems and policy design. He is passionate about development, access to knowledge, user centered design, and the internet, and experiments with implementing tools and infrastructures that catalyze social change. He studied engineering at the University of Waterloo, in Canada, and urban planning at the American University of Beirut, in Lebanon.
Full interview here
Evidence
- Twitter & GitHub: @majdal
- Majd’s website
- Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship
- Creative Commons: Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship and Memorial Fund Recipients Announced
- Palestine Open Maps
- Palestine Oral History Archive
- MASRAD: Platform for the Syrian Oral History Archive project [website will be live soon!]
- Download photos of Majd (photo credits in file names)
