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 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.
