Seen Network uses LARP (live-action role play) and improvisational play to rebuild something increasingly rare: real, embodied connection between people. In a world where digital communication has replaced face-to-face interaction, Seen creates structured spaces for self-expression, listening, and relationship-building through games rooted in Palestinian identity, stories, and daily life. The measure of success is simple — when participants carry the experience back into their lives. One of the most powerful testimonies came from a former political prisoner, who said he wished he had known these games during his time in prison: it would have made the time easier to bear.
Mohammed Mousa
Founder
2026 Fellow - Hebron
Mohammed has been volunteering with civil society since 2009 — 13 years with Tamer Institute alone, and stints with organizations across the sector that built him a wide network and a habit of seeing problems and reaching for solutions. He studied law, then went back for a master's in fundraising and strategic planning specifically because he had more ideas than capital and needed to know how to bridge that gap. The result was Seen Network, founded in late 2024: a play-based enterprise that treats games not as a luxury but as a tool for resilience, resistance, and community. A partnership with Beta LARP in Belgium brought a six-person Palestinian team to Europe for a month-long cultural exchange, and hosted a Belgian expert in Palestine for three months to accelerate Seen's work on the ground. Mohammed built this from the conviction, held since his earliest volunteer days, that the best solutions are often the simplest ones — and that play, properly designed, can hold a community together.
Seen Network
Mohammed Mousa
