Whilst the political motivations for Arab states to normalise relations with Israel are well known, this session looks at the religious-cultural language around the Abraham Accords.
Who suggested including this language? Was this just branding, or a real attempt to rewrite the script of Arab-Jewish relations? And what will be the fate of all this following the Israel-Hamas war?
Dr. Toby Greene is a Visiting Fellow in the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics, and a Lecturer in the Politics Department at Bar-Ilan University. He has a background in policy research and political communications. His research and teaching focus on foreign policy, especially in Europe and the Middle East.
He publishes and lectures widely for academic, professional and general audiences and is the author of Blair, Labour & Palestine: Conflicting Views on Middle East Peace After 9/11 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013). Before entering academia, Toby was the Director of Research for BICOM, and the founding Deputy Editor of its journal Fathom.
