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Bayan Abubakr

Bayan Abubakr is a PhD candidate in history at Yale University.

The Abraham Accords and Sudan’s Global Counterrevolution — People gather in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Khartoum to stage a demonstration against the normalization agreement signed with Israel, in Sudan on February 6, 2023. Mahmoud Hjaj/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Issue 315-316

The Abraham Accords and Sudan’s Global Counterrevolution

On October 23, 2020, Sudan became the third Arab-majority country to normalize relations with Israel under the Abraham Accords. The deal between Israel and the civilian-military Sudanese Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC)—formed after the popular revolution ousted President Omar al-Bashir in April 2019—was facilitated by the United Arab Emirates

Bayan Abubakr • 11 min read