Kaabour graduated from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
in Montreal and went on to join the National Film Board of Canada and the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Heavily interested in documentaries, Kaabour founded Veritas
Films in the UAE in 2008. It exclusively produces non-fiction content.

Through Veritas, he has created documentaries and films for
the Ministry of Presidential Affairs and the Executive Affairs Authority in Abu
Dhabi, the Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council, Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture
and Heritage, Dubai Holding, and Dubai Investments subsidiaries.

But Kaabour is most recognised for his first feature film,
‘Being Osama’. The documentary shows the lives of six men sharing Osama Bin
Laden’s first name in the period after the September 11 terror attacks. The
film received four international awards and was aired on 12 international
channels, making Kaabour the youngest commissioned filmmaker in the history of
Canadian television.

Kaabour’s other works, including the films ‘Teta, Alf
Marra’, also won five major Audience Awards and Best Film awards as well as
recognition from publications including The New York Times, and a special jury
mention at its world premiere at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival.

Impressively, it was the first documentary produced in the
GCC to qualify for an Academy Awards nomination.

Kaabour’s third film, ‘Champ of the Camp’, was probably the
most controversial of his works. It is set in UAE labour camps and follows a
Bollywood singing competition that moves across 70 camps to select a winner.
The movie was narrated and sung entirely by real-life labourers.

It premiered at the Tenth Dubai International
Film Festival in 2013 with a special screening at the Burj Khalifa.