Mahdi Sabbagh is co-curator of PalFest 2019. He is a practicing urbanist and architect at Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. Mahdi was co-editor of Perspecta 50: Urban Divides (MIT Press, 2017), and his work has been published in the Journal of Public Culture, the Jerusalem Quarterly, and Jadaliyya. He holds a Masters’s in Architecture from Yale University.