This discussion, joined by Al-Shabaka policy fellow Tareq Baconi and policy analysts Mouin Rabbani and Rashid Khalidi examine the impact of shifting alliances and regional instability in the Middle East on the next US administration’s approach to the Palestine-Israel conflict. Weeks from the US presidential elections, this timely discussion explores the Gulf’s unspoken alliance with Israel against Iran, the Syrian crisis, and ISIS, and the changing dynamics in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, as well as the importance of natural gas finds in the eastern Mediterranean.
Featured Speaker
Tareq Baconi is a Palestinian writer, scholar, and activist. He previously served as Al-Shabaka’s US policy fellow and later as president of the board of directors. His work has appeared in The New York Times and The Baffler, among others. He also contributes essays to The New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. He is the author of What Now: On Palestine, Freedom, and Our Global Future (2026), Hamas Contained: A History of Palestinian Resistance (2018), which was shortlisted for the Palestine Book Award, and Fire in Every Direction: A Memoir (2025).
