ACMCU, CCAS, and The African Studies Program of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service welcomed Dr. Tareq Baconi from Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network to give a lecture on the War in Gaza and glean insight into what may have informed Hamas's decision to carry out it's shocking and violent attack against Israel on October 7th of 2023. In his lecture, Dr. Baconi placed the events of the 7th within a broader historical and political evolution of the movement and struggle of the occupied Palestinian people. Baconi situated Hamas as a key constituent in the Palestinian struggle for self-determination, and analyzed the movement’s rationale and strategic objectives behind the attack.
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.
