Yosef Jabareen is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning and holds the Landau Fellow – Leader of Science and Technology at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Jabareen received his PhD in urban planning from the Technion and graduated from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Jabareen was a visiting scholar and a lecturer in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT- Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MIT Jabareen managed an interdisciplinary colloquium on the Politics of Reconstructing Iraq, and an international research projects on the Arab Discourses on the American Project in Iraq and the Middle East. In these projects, international scholars and students, and different departments where involved. His work focuses on culture and urban planning in contested and diverse cities; planning and ethnic minority rights; and planning Arab and Moslem cities. In addition, he writes on urban spaces of trust and spaces of risk and on theorizing the multidisciplinary concept of sustainability. In addition, he writes on employment issues among Arab women in Israel and develop strategies to enhance their employment participation rate.