Yabous Cultural centre مركز يبوس الثقافي

Yabous is a non-governmental Palestinian organization based in Jerusalem.  was established in 1995 when Suhail Khoury invited a number of artists and culture enthusiasts and entrepreneurs from Jerusalem  to create a body to adopt the development and patronage of performing arts in Jerusalem.  They collectively formed the founding board of Yabous, thus Yabous was born Two years later, in April 1997.Yabous was officially registered as a non-profit organization based in the city of Jerusalem.

Yabous; the first name given to the city of Jerusalem by the Jebusites. The Jebusites is a Canaanite tribe who built the first city Yabous on the location of present-day Jerusalem.  Today and after more than 5000 years, the descendants of the Jebusites still live in East Jerusalem and continue to revive their city culturally and artistically by organizing activities in the field of performing arts.