Mahmoud Barakat is an architect from Syria, University of Aleppo. He holds a master’s degree in environmental engineering from the University of Pannonia in Hungary. He worked as a restoration architect in Syria for several NGOs and CSOs between 2015 and 2017. He also did humanitarian and volunteer work before he moved to Hungary to continue his study. Furthermore, he served as a researcher in 2019 and 2020 at Shattuck CCNR at CEU, in his work, he focused most on the Heritage protection policy in conflict zones. Currently, he is a student in MA Cultural Heritage Studies at Central European University. He devotes his work to cultural heritage protection and management. Also, he is conducting research on the cultural landscape memory in displaced people for post-war recovery.