Aref Husseini is founder and CEO of the Al Nayzak Foundation for Extra Curricular Education and Scientific Innovation, Palestine Territories. His non-profit organisation is challenging traditional teaching methods in the Palestinian education system to produce more students who are critical thinkers and who approach problem solving through research, analysis and scientific thinking. Aref is an electrical engineer, a physicist and a novelist from Jerusalem who has worked in many industrial and educational fields as a developer, researcher and leader during the last 20 years.