Tareq Baconi

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Tareq Baconi is a Jordanian-born Palestinian writer and scholar. He is the author of Hamas Contained (2018), a study of Palestinian resistance movements, and of Fire in Every Direction (2025), a memoir of "queer identity, family history, and political awakening". [1]

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Baconi is the grandchild of Palestinian refugees and grew up in Amman and Beirut. [2] Baconi completed a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in International Relations at the University of Cambridge and a PhD at King's College London. [3] Baconi is a British citizen. [4]

From 2016 to 2017, Baconi was a fellow at Al-Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network, [5] and as of 2025 is the president of Al-Shabaka's board, a position he assumed in 2021, succeeding Nadia Hijab. [6] He was also a senior analyst at the Ramallah-based International Crisis Group. [5]

Baconi's book Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance was published by Stanford UP in 2018; [7] one reviewer praised the "meticulous analysis" of Hamas-publications and secondary literature in Arabic. [8] The book "traces developments within Hamas's ideology and politics from its inception to its entrenchment in the Gaza strip". [9] For the European Council on Foreign Relations, he wrote reports on the role the Eastern Mediterranean could play in energy distribution (2017) [10] and the geopolitical consequences of water scarcity in the Middle East and North Africa (2018). [11]

His memoir Fire in Every Direction was published in 2025. [1] Sceptre won the rights for the UK, while the US rights went to Atria Books. [2] The book was described as "a queer coming-of-age story told against a backdrop of generations of violence and displacement, as the grandson of Palestinian refugees growing up between Lebanon and Jordan". It was the subject of a bidding war between various publishers. [2] The memoir traces "three generations of displacement", beginning with his grandmother fleeing the Nakba, the uprooting of his family in Lebanon, and his own life, from his childhood in Amman where he fell in love with the boy next door through his college education in London. [1]

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  1. 1 2 3 Fadel, Leila (4 November 2025). "Tareq Baconi talks about his new memoir Fire in Every Direction". NPR . Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 Snow, Maia (1 September 2025). "Sceptre wins three-way auction for Tareq Baconi's memoir". The Bookseller . Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  3. ↑ "Arab Awakening Columnists". Open Democracy. 18 May 2012. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  4. ↑ Rapoport, Meron (1 July 2020). "'Opposing apartheid is the only way this struggle can go'". +972 Magazine. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  5. 1 2 "Tareq Baconi: Board, Editorial Committee, Policy Member". Al-Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network . Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  6. ↑ "Al-Shabaka Announces New Board President". Al-Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network. 4 November 2021. Retrieved 5 November 2025.
  7. ↑ Roy, Sara (2019). "Reviewed Work(s): Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance by Tareq Baconi". Middle East Journal. 73 (1): 163–164. JSTOR   26933045.
  8. ↑ Vericat, José S. (2019). "Reviewed Work(s): Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance by Tareq Baconi". Journal of Palestine Studies. 48 (3): 101–103. doi:10.1525/jps.2019.48.3.101. JSTOR   26873221.
  9. ↑ Awad, Hani (2024). "Three in One: Hamas as an Islamist, Social, and Hyper-Nationalist Movement". In Elkahlout, Ghassan (ed.). Gaza's Cycle of Destruction and Rebuilding: Understanding the Actors, Dynamics, and Responses. Springer. pp. 17–34. ISBN   9783031671982.
  10. ↑ Ciaboco, Silvia (3 October 2020). "Towards Europe's energy diversification: The Eastern Mediterranean option". Translated by Ingham-Barrow, Brittany. The New Federalist.
  11. ↑ Arya, Jaidev (2024). "Geopolitical Implications of Water Scarcity in the Middle East". Journal of Sustainable Solutions. 15 (2).
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