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A love story, a political narrative, and a tale of self-discovery converge in this intimate conversation. What happens when queerness, Palestine, exile, and truth-telling all intersect in one life? How do we reclaim ourselves when the world teaches us to hide?
In this episode of Out Loud with Ahmed, I sat down with acclaimed writer and analyst Tareq Baconi (President of the Board of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, author of Hamas Contained) to unpack his groundbreaking new memoir Fire in Every Direction.
A Palestina e o paradoxo da ajuda internacional
Desde os Acordos de Oslo, mais de 50 mil milhões de dólares em ajuda internacional foram dirigidos para a Palestina. Três décadas depois, impõe-se a pergunta: o que é que esse investimento conseguiu?
Our conversation with writer, scholar, and activist, Tareq Baconi, about the many forms of containment forced onto Palestinians and the need to reclaim the Palestinian revolutionary legacy. We discuss Tareq’s book, "Hamas Contained: A History of Palestinian Resistance" (2018), his disillusionment with the limits of commentary, what a free Palestine actually means, and his new memoir "Fire in Every Direction" (2025).
O palestiniano Alaa Tartir tem muitos chapéus. Doutorado em desenvolvimento internacional, é consultor no think tank palestiniano de políticas políticas Al Shabaka.
Israel's exit-only plan for the Rafah crossing is fuelling fears of a gradual, coerced displacement of Palestinians as it deepens its hold over Gaza. Shatha Abdulsamad comments to The New Arab on the topic.
Tareq Baconi traces the group from its inception in the Muslim Brotherhood, to an armed resistance group, and then a democratically elected party. How did the group rise to power in Gaza? What were the conditions under which they adopted violence as a strategy? Did October 7 go as planned, or was there a miscalculation? And how is Tareq making sense of this moment in time, in the face of the ongoing genocide by Israel against the people of Palestine?
"The conference on the decolonisation of Palestine was organised jointly by Progressive International, the Palestinian thinktank Al-Shabaka and the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies at Birzeit. The university’s academics and students have had a long history of protest and clashes with Israeli forces, and the campus has been repeatedly raided by Israeli forces over the last two years."
I was too young to have witnessed this myself; I was only two in 1985. The entry in Tata’s diary, dated August 20 of that year, notes that she had heard deeply upsetting news on TV. I assemble the rest of the scene with recycled anecdotes, which is easy to do, because that evening has become the stuff of family folklore.
As Gaza's misery deepens, secret flights approved by Israel offer a way out. But many fear they are laying the groundwork for a silent population transfer. Al-Shabaka's US policy fellow Tariq Kenney-Shawa speaks to The New Arab about the issue.
In this episode of The Amargi Mosaic, host Elif Sarican speaks with Yara Hawari about how different forms of storytelling — from her novel The Stone House to oral history — shape Palestinian political and social narratives. They explore how Palestinian women navigate the dual pressures of living under occupation and confronting internal patriarchal structures, including the social expectations surrounding grief and mourning.
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