Ofir Winter (INSS/ Tel Aviv University)

"Making Peace with the Jews? Contemporary Islamic Arguments for and against Normalization"
Sunday, October 30, 2022

Ofir Winter is a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies and a lecturer at the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University. He holds a PhD from the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. His doctoral research focused on Egypt and Jordan's quest to legitimize their peace treaties with Israel.  He is the author of two books: Zionism in Arab Discourses (Manchester University Press, 2016, with Uriya Shavit); and the recently published, Peace in the Name of Allah: Islamic Discourses on Treaties with Israel (De Gruyter, 2022).