Trump's Peace: The Abraham Accords and the Reshaping of the Middle East
Trump's Peace: The Abraham Accords and the Reshaping of the Middle East
Senior journalist and commentator Barak Ravid wrote the first book about Trump’s signature foreign policy achievements in the Middle East that quickly became a bestseller. The book is based on a series of exclusive conversations with former US President Donald Trump as well as US secretaries of state, senior advisors and diplomats in capitals across the Middle East, and even secret service agents intimately involved in Israel’s covert diplomatic efforts. Mr. Ravid argues that President Trump’s policies and decisions fundamentally reshaped the geopolitical map of the Middle East.
The Abraham Accords, brokered by the Trump administration, brought about peace and normalization between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan. The only part of Trump’s legacy to receive bipartisan domestic praise and widespread global support, the accords might be considered the biggest diplomatic breakthrough of the decade in the Middle East peace process. With unrivaled access in Jerusalem, Washington, DC, Abu Dhabi, Manama, and Rabat, Mr. Ravid will offer the most comprehensive, engaging, and balanced account yet of those four dramatic years in the Middle East as well as a discussion on the legacy of the accords and the Biden administration’s relationship with them.
Barak Ravid is a senior political reporter and Middle East expert for Axios covering foreign policy and the 2024 presidential election. Ravid is also a political and foreign policy analyst for CNN. In the last 15 years, he covered extensively the Middle East – mainly Israel’s foreign relations and national security policy in addition to its political system. Covering the U.S.-Israel relationship, The Iran nuclear crisis, The Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and the Middle East during the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations in America and the Olmert and Netanyahu governments in Israel. Mr. Ravid has reported from more than 30 capitals on 5 continents, published numerous scoops that influenced foreign policy, and drove the debate in Washington, Jerusalem, and across Europe and the Middle East.