Al-Shabaka Board President Tareq Baconi was invited to give this talk at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity of Stanford University.
Al-Shabaka Board President Tareq Baconi was invited to give this talk at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity of Stanford University.
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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).
