Elham Fakhro is a Research Associate at the Chatham House MENA program, and a Research Fellow at Exeter University's Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies. She previously acted as Senior Gulf Analyst with the International Crisis Group and as a Lecturer at NYU Abu Dhabi. She holds a doctorate from St Antony's College, Oxford University and is the author of a forthcoming book on the Abraham Accords, and Arab normalisation with Israel (Columbia University Press, 2024).