Caabu invites you to an online book launch on the Ottomans and their complex cultural legacy 100 years on with Diana Darke, author and Middle East cultural expert with a specialism on Syria,  who will discuss her new book, 

Caabu is among 13 UK humanitarian, development, human rights and faith charities and organisations to have signed onto this statement urging the UK government to support Palestinian civil society under attack and take action for prevent further escalation repression and attacks because of the work they are doing. 

The UK must support Palestinian civil society under attack

26 August 2022

Gazans will continue to suffer even as rocket fire paused - Article by Chris Doyle in Arab News, 8 August 2022

Caabu is among 16 organisations to have signed onto this statement, calling for an immediate end to the closure of Gaza after 15 years of collective punishment and imposed fragmentation.

UK charities call for immediate end to closure of Gaza after 15 years of collective punishment and imposed fragmentation

20th July 2022

Caabu hosted an online briefing on football in the Middle East, with an expert panel of speakers; Abdullah Al-Arian, an Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University in Qatar where he specializes in the modern Middle East and the study of Islamic social movements and author of Football in the Middle East, and Professor Ramón Spaaij, a sociologist based at Vic

138 European Parliamentarians from 12 European Union countries (from national parliaments and the European Parliament) have written to the European Union's High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borell. It addresses the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, notably on two Israeli decisions which both constitute grave breaches of international law; the E1 settlement plan and the planned and continued forced dispossessions and demolitions of some of the most vulnerable Palestinian communities in Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills. 

Partner or pariah? Biden must make his mind up on Saudi - Article by Chris Doyle for Arabian Gulf Business Insight, 8 July 2022

Murder and the Yemen war versus rising prices at the pump - the US president will have to use all his powers of diplomacy to get what he wants

The Middle East has historically represented tricky terrain for US presidents. Many have tried to avoid it but the region sucks them in. 

Caabu invites you to an online briefing on football in the Middle East, with an expert panel of speakers; Abdullah Al-Arian, an Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University in Qatar where he specializes in the modern Middle East and the study of Islamic social movements and author of

Caabu hosted an online book launch with Sally Hayden on 27 June 2022, who discussed her book, My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route. The book can be purchased here.

On 13 June 2022, Caabu hosted an online discussion on the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, the Al Jazeera Arabic journalist killed on 11 May 2022 whilst covering an Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank. At the meeting, we heard from a work colleague of 17 years Wessam Hammad as to what she was like, what she represented to the Palestinian people.