Majd al-Shehabi
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 interested in knowledge production outside of traditional institutions, and knowledge dissemination to wider audiences. He is an urban planning graduate student at the American University of Beirut. His most recent project is Palestine Open Maps, a platform for open sourcing historical maps of Palestine.