Abdu is a policy analyst with the Al-Shabaka,[15] a Palestinian policy network. He sponsored the establishment of
We Are Not Numbers in early 2015.[16] Conceived by American journalist Pam Bailey under the umbrella of the
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, the project was launched for young adults in the
Gaza Strip and designed both to help them share their narratives (and those of their people) in their own words with the Western (English-speaking) world and bust
stereotypes about Palestinians.
Abdu was the assistant director and Palestine Office Manager for
Council for European Palestinian Relations,[18][19] an organisation described by The Independent as "a Belgian non-profit organisation that lobbies on behalf of the Hamas-led Gaza Government."[20] He was on the board of trustees of the International platform of NGOs working for Palestine.[21]
Abdu authored and co-authored several publications, including The Influence of Minority Shareholder Protection on Equity Market Development,[23] a book published by
Google Books, Escaping the Escape: Toward Solutions for the Humanitarian
Migration Crisis,[5] a book published by
Bertelsmann Stiftung (ed.) in 2017, in which he analysed Palestinians’ motives to take deadly risks to attempt to leave the
Gaza Strip, The Effect of the 50-day Conflict in Gaza on Children: A Descriptive Study, published by the
Lancet.,[24] and As MENA States Grow Increasingly Repressive, Businesses Should Lead Reform, published on the Journal of Political Risk,[25] in which he analysed businesses' responsibility of challenging repressive policies and
human rights violations in the
MENA region. Abdu's published works also appear on
University of Oxford,[26][27]London School of Economics,[28][4]OpenDeomcracy,[29]Middle East Eye[30] and
Insight Turkey.[31]