Alhakam Shaar is a linguist and urban sociologist. He is researcher at The Aleppo Project (CEU, 2015 – 2020; independent, 2020 -), and currently contributes to research on preserving Aleppian cultural heritage Facebook groups, as part of the Modern Endangered Archives Program, UCLA. He holds master’s degrees in Applied Linguistics (University of Aleppo, 2012) and Sociology and Social Anthropology (CEU, 2021). His thesis used ethnographic methods to study placemaking by Aleppian migrants and refugees in Berlin. He is now training in computational linguistics, aiming to contribute to the documentation of Aleppo’s linguistic heritage. Alhakam also enjoys interpreting at conferences and workshops.