After graduation, he worked at a
UNWRA-led women’s teacher training center in Ramallah. He primarily works in the mediums of painting and drawing. Much of his artwork depicts images of flight or escape. Barakat was one of the founding members of the League of Palestinian Artists () art collective in 1973, the other founding artists included Karim Dabbah, Taysir Sharaf,
Nabil Anani, Kamel Mughanni,
Vera Tamari,
Fathi Ghabin, Issam Badr, Suleiman Mansour, Fatin Tubasi, Samira Badran, and Yusuf Duwayk. The group wanted to created Palestinian visual art on native land. As a group they had pledge to make art with naturally found materials, in order to divest from spending money on Israeli art supplies. During this period Barakat began to work with materials such as local clay (and he added hay for consistency), wood and fire. Barakat founded in 1997 the
Ziryab Gallery and Cafe in Ramallah, where he also worked as an art curator. and the
Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts in Amman. == Exhibitions ==