Tareq Baconi

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Tareq Baconi is working on a book about decolonisation in the 21st century. His memoir, a queer love story set against the decades-spanning sweep of violence and erasure that his family experienced as Palestinian refugees, is forthcoming with Atria in fall 2025. He is the author of Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance (Stanford University Press, 2018) and of the short film One Like Him, a BFI-funded film shot in Jordan. His writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, among others. He is the former senior analyst for Israel/Palestine at the International Crisis Group. He serves as the president of the board of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network and the book review editor for the Journal of Palestine Studies.

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Tareq Baconi

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Tareq Baconi is working on a book about decolonisation in the 21st century. His memoir, a queer love story set against the decades-spanning sweep of violence and erasure that his family experienced as Palestinian refugees, is forthcoming with Atria in fall 2025. He is the author of Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance (Stanford University Press, 2018) and of the short film One Like Him, a BFI-funded film shot in Jordan. His writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, among others.

Tareq Baconi-Alameda institute