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Al Hub Forum was founded in 2024 as a grassroots initiative to uplift Palestinian and allied youth in Chicago. Inspired by historic Palestinian nadis (clubs) and muntadas (forums)—spaces where thinkers, artists, and organizers gathered to imagine and build futures—Al Hub revives this tradition for our time.

Chicago is home to over 200,000 Palestinians. Within this community lies immense creative, intellectual, and organizing potential. Al Hub exists to activate that potential through education, cultural expression, and collective action—especially in the wake of the Palestinian Renaissance that emerged in October 2023.

Why Al Hub

We create space for people who were never given time to study their history deeply, explore their creativity, or gather in serious dialogue. Through forums, art, movement, and response, Al Hub connects individual purpose to collective power.

What began as conversations quickly became action—most notably through Art 4 the Heart, a collective painting practice developed in moments of grief and resistance to document Gaza and reconnect with ancestral memory. From that work, Al Hub's mission became clear:

We return to one another so we can return together.

Our Mission

Through cultural education, critical discourse, and moral grounding, we build compassionate strategists, creative leaders, and disciplined community-builders.

We defend dignity, nurture imagination, and prepare our people—here and abroad—for a future rooted in justice, sovereignty, and care.

Our Vision

Al Hub is a social innovation network of artists, activists, scientists, and athletes. We use love, creativity, and strategy to transform exile into action—making Chicago a living model for liberation, resilience, and future-building.

What We Do

• 01Forums & critical conversations
• 02Creative and cultural programming
• 03Mutual aid & rapid response
• 04Advocacy and social justice campaigns
• 05Turning dreams into action