Listen to this conversation with Dr. Tareq Baconi to discuss the controversial conclusions he made in his book, Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance: What does he argue? How did he reach these conclusions? And how is his book perceived by the different audiences? Tareq Baconi serves as the president of the board of Al-Shabaka.
He is the former senior analyst for Israel/Palestine and Economics of Conflict at the International Crisis Group, based in Ramallah, and the author of Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance published by Stanford University Press in 2018.
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Tareq Baconi serves as the president of the board of Al-Shabaka. He was Al-Shabaka’s US Policy Fellow from 2016 – 2017. Tareq is the former senior analyst for Israel/Palestine and Economics of Conflict at the International Crisis Group, based in Ramallah, and the author of Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance (Stanford University Press, 2018). Tareq’s writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, the Washington Post, among others, and he is a frequent commentator in regional and international media. He is the book review editor for the Journal of Palestine Studies.
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