Raed Yacoub (Raed)

Raed Yacoub is a Palestinian born and raised in north-east Jerusalem. He is currently a master student in the program of Society, Science and Technology at Lund University in Sweden. In fall 2008, Raed worked with the Media Barrios team in the Jerusalem 2050 project as a Visionary Fellow at MIT. Raed’s main interest is in technology, learning, and community development. Using his background in Computer Science, he has been working on projects that enable youth to develop necessary work and life skills by experimenting with creative expression using media and technology. He previously coordinated the Intel Computer Clubhouse in Ramallah, the first project of its kind in the Arab Middle East. He was awarded the Fulbright-Humphrey Fellowship 2006/2007 at the Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies (SPURS) at MIT and the MIT Media Lab Ideas Institute Fellowship in 2005. Since 2007, Raed coordinated the Voices Beyond Walls program in the West Bank.