After the United States vetoed Salam Fayyad's appointment to be UN envoy to Libya in 2017, the former Palestinian prime minister accepted an academic appointment at Princeton University. Fayyad is currently spending his summer vacation back home in Palestine after his first year as a professor at the prestigious Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
While recently attending a social event on the West Bank, a friend asked Fayyad if he wouldn’t mind meeting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during his stay. Fayyad told the mutual friend that he had no objections to doing so. Within days, a meeting had been scheduled.
