Europe · MENA · Africa · 15 Years · BP · Shell

I deliver infrastructure that works.

Across Europe, MENA, and Sub-Saharan Africa, I take complex capital projects from concept to reality. €80M+ portfolios. 40+ sites. Four countries simultaneously. For BP and Shell. Now focused on emerging markets, climate infrastructure, and development impact.

DeliveryTaking infrastructure from feasibility to operation, on time and on budget
InstitutionsGovernments, municipalities, banks, agencies. I speak every room
GeographyEurope, MENA, GCC, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Three continents of real projects
LanguagesArabic · English · Dutch · French. No intermediaries needed
Core practice

One practice across infrastructure, cities, policy and meaning.

Most people can plan infrastructure. Far fewer can deliver it, through regulatory conflict, contractor failure, political complexity, and cultural distance. That gap is where I work. I have spent 15 years closing it, for some of the world's largest energy companies, across some of the world's most demanding environments.

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Energy and Infrastructure

EV charging, LNG, hydrogen ready sites, mobility hubs, grid coordination and HSSE delivery governance.

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Infrastructure on the ground Sites, contractors, safety, commissioning and recovery work.
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Architecture and Urbanism

Buildings, cities, spatial narratives, adaptive reuse and development portfolios across Europe, MENA, the GCC and Africa.

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Architectural facade with diagonal light pattern Architecture archive Click to move to the research and project archive.
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Painting and Visual Thought

Memory, Tripoli, energy, power, identity, social contradiction and material texture.

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Tripoli memory painting Harbour memory painting Energy painting
Painting gallery Click to move to the visual section.
Energy infrastructure

Transition delivery with spatial intelligence.

Energy transition work sits within a longer practice of planning, design, systems thinking and public value. It is connected to cities, users, safety, traffic flow, stakeholders and institutional trust.

EV charging row under solar canopy
Multi energy mobility hub design
EV charging canopy front view
€80M+Capital portfolio managed
40+Sites across four countries simultaneously
3Continents of delivered projects
4Languages, no intermediaries needed
Architecture and research archive

One image as a doorway into each project.

Each teaser opens an original project page. The new site remains clean while the older archive keeps the full project depth.

Painting and visual thought

Painting as a second language.

Understanding space, memory, and cultural meaning is what separates infrastructure that works from infrastructure that lasts. The painting is part of the same practice.

These paintings are personal visual works by Mohamad Kabbara and are shown as part of his creative and intellectual practice. They are not for sale.

Tripoli memory painting Tripoli garden painting Shell energy painting Blue architecture painting Abstract flowers painting Red portrait painting Urban Philips painting Gulf critique painting Textured ladder painting by Mohamad Kabbara Blue portrait painting by Mohamad Kabbara Dark portrait painting by Mohamad Kabbara Green architectural cactus painting by Mohamad Kabbara Harbour memory painting by Mohamad Kabbara
Founder initiative

LEUSI, safety as social infrastructure.

LEUSI is a founder initiative focused on HSSE awareness, worker certification, safety leadership and institutional capacity building, connecting European safety standards with frontline realities in Lebanon and future regional contexts.

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Contact

Let's build something that matters.

Based in The Hague. Available internationally and open to relocation. If you are working on infrastructure, climate finance, urban development, or institutional capacity in emerging markets, I want to hear from you.