A conversation with Tareq Baconi in the Humanities in Session series at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), part of the Advanced Research Seminar presented in partnership with the Consortium for Humanities Centres and Institutes' Humanities Administration Network.
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).
