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What did Abraham have to do with the Abraham Accords?
Dr Toby Greene
How did the Abraham Accords get their name? Why did the UAE build a large synagogue in the middle of Abu Dhabi? Is this just PR, 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 an academic with a background in policy research and political communications. His research and teaching focuses on foreign policy decision making, European foreign policy, and the international politics of the Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian arena. He is a Visiting Fellow in the Middle East Centre at the London School of
Economics and a Lecturer in the Department for Political Studies at Bar Ilan University. www.tobygreene.net; @toby_greene_
Whilst the political motivations for Arab states to normalise relations with Israel are well known, Toby will look at the religious-cultural language around the Abraham Accords. 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?
