Dr. Ofir Winter is a Senior Researcher at INSS 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 and was selected as a Alice and Paul Baker Senior Researcher at the INSS. His doctoral research focused on Egypt and Jordan’s quest to legitimize their peace treaties with Israel between the years 1973-2001. 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). He is also the author of several articles on the politics of Egypt, the Arab-Israeli conflict, church and state in the Arab world, and contemporary Muslim law.