Overview

• Sababa opened on Saturday at the Consulat Voltaire in Paris’s 11th district, drawing crowds for its first service.
• Franco-Palestinian chef Radjaa Aboudagga and Franco-Israeli co-founder Edgar Laloum created the project with the Nous reconcilier association.
• The menu highlights shared Middle Eastern dishes such as hummus, falafel, Gazan salad and manakish, under Palestinian, French and Israeli flags.
• The pop-up plans poetry readings in Hebrew, Arabic and French, along with discussion groups and concerts, and will operate four nights a week through June 2026.
• Organizers link the launch to cautious optimism tied to a truce and anticipated exchanges of hostages and prisoners, while patrons and experts describe the effort as symbolic rather than a political solution.