Caabu hosted an online briefing on what future for Lebanon with Al Jazeera Senior Correspondent, Zeina Khodr and Maha Yahya, Director of the Carnegie Middle East Center on Monday 3 October 2022. The briefing addressed questions such as how did Lebanon reach this point? Is there a route out of Lebanon’s current crisis? What needs to happen? What can the international community do helpfully and conversely what it should not do.

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Caabu invites you to an online briefing on what future for Lebanon with Al Jazeera Senior Correspondent, Zeina Khodr and Maha Yahya, Director of the Carnegie Middle East Center on Monday 3 October 2022 at 12:30pm (BST UK time) an

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. 

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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.

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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. 

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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