Majd Al-Shihabi
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First Bassel Khartabil Fellowship recipient (2018); Palestinian-Syrian oral history and maps.
Roles: engineer, urbanist, open archives
Founder of Palestine Open Maps and Inaugural Bassel Khartabil Fellow.
If there's one thing that this fellowship has given me, it's access to that network of people who have similar beliefs.
Biography
Majd Al-Shihabi is a systems design engineer, based in Beirut, applying the craft of systems thinking to as many fields as he can reach. He works with a wide range of academic and cultural institutions and archives in the region to build openness into their information systems. He is an urban planning graduate student at American University of Beirut. Majd is the inaugural recipient of the Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship, where he worked on PalestineOpenMaps.org, and the MASRAD:platform for archiving oral history.
Projects
- Palestine Open Maps
- MASRAD Open Knowledge Collective: works at the intersection of archives
External links
- majdal.cc: personal website
Projects: Bassel Khartabil Fellowship, Bassel Khartabil Memorial Fund