Community Jameel

An independent, global organisation, Community Jameel launched in 2003 to continue the tradition of philanthropy and community service established by the Jameel family of Saudi Arabia in 1945.

Life-saving care for mothers and children evacuated from Gaza

Egyptian paramedics are receiving specialist training from Save the Children, supported by Community Jameel, to help them deliver life-saving care to pregnant mothers, newborn babies and wounded children evacuated from Gaza.

The Jameel House of World Traditional Arts in Scotland

The Jameel House in Scotland will be a global school for students of traditional arts worldwide. A new Jameel House Scholarship, set to launch in early 2025, will support Arab students of the traditional arts in Scotland, London, Cairo and Jeddah.

Nobel prize awarded to J-PAL affiliates Daron Acemoğlu and James Robinson

Community Jameel congratulates Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) affiliates James Robinson and Daron Acemoğlu, and their collaborator Simon Johnson, on winning the 2024 Nobel prize in economics for their research illuminating the relationship between political systems and economic growth.

Pratham-Jameel Second Chance

Pratham-Jameel Second Chance supported 11,399 girls and women in India in its first year.

Jameel 75

Celebrate the Jameel family's 75th anniversary of business and philanthropy.

Jameel Institute – Realtime Intelligent Support for Emergencies

New global initiative to offer crucial insights to international agencies and transform humanitarian response in conflict zones.

Jameel Index for Food Trade and Vulnerability

Measuring key aspects of global food security that are dependent on food trade and the global change threats impacting food trade.

CLIMAVORE x Jameel at RCA announces 2024 Food Action Awards

CLIMAVORE x Jameel at the Royal College of Art (RCA) is offering two awards to advance projects that respond to food in the new seasons of the climate crisis, such as drought, polluted oceans or fertiliser runoff.

Andrea Bocelli and Henna Mun sing 'Tace il labbro'

Henna Mun, the 2023 Andrea Bocelli Foundation-Community Jameel Scholar at the Royal College of Music, performs with Andrea Bocelli at Hyde Park, London.

News

J-PAL

J-PAL MENA celebrates five years of transforming policymaking in the Middle East and North Africa

7 July 2025

Jameel House in Cairo

The Jameel House of Traditional Arts in Cairo opens call for its two-year programme

28 June 2025

Bocelli-Jameel Scholarship

Andrea Bocelli performs live in Pompeii with Bocelli-Jameel scholars

27 June 2025

J-PAL Evidence to Policy

Morocco Innovation and Evaluation Lab conference highlights importance of evidence use in policy-making

25 June 2025

Jameel C40 Urban Planning Climate Labs

Jameel C40 Urban Planning Climate Labs announce new partnership, convenings in Chennai and London

25 June 2025

Media

Al-Arab

The Jameel House graduates a new generation of Egyptian craftspeople

20 June 2025

Jameel House in Cairo

Reuters

Egyptian school revives traditional and heritage crafts

19 June 2025

Jameel House in Cairo

The Washington Post

The retreat from aid is a costly mistake

17 June 2025

J-PAL

RED NOSES

RED NOSES to explore the impact of healthcare clowning in Lesvos, in collaboration with the Jameel Arts & Health Lab and WHO Europe

16 April 2025

Jameel Arts & Health Lab

MIT News

New Alliance for Data, Evaluation and Policy Training will advance data-driven decision-making in public policy

31 March 2025

J-PAL

Events

Cairo

Celebrating five years of J-PAL Middle East and North Africa

7 July 2025

American University of Cairo

London

London Climate Action Week: Accelerating climate through urban planning

25 June 2025

Gensler, London

Chennai

Mainstreaming climate action in Indian cities

18 June 2025

Chennai, India

Oxford

Jameel Index Forum: Food trade in the current age of uncertainty

17 June 2025

Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford

Cairo

Jameel House in Cairo workshops at the 2025 Bayt Yakan summer school

1 June 2025

Cairo, Egypt

Advancing science and learning for communities to thrive

Life-saving care for mothers and children evacuated from Gaza

The Jameel House of World Traditional Arts in Scotland