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 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).
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