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Palestine-Israel: Obama’s Final Days

November 10, 2016

Al-Shabaka is pleased to share this policy briefing by its US Fellow Tareq Baconi, which details Obama's options on Palestine-Israel in his final months as President of the United States and has been sent to key US policy makers and media. To download, please click here, or on the image below.

Tareq Baconi

Al-Shabaka Analyst Tareq Baconi served as Al-Shabaka's US Policy Fellow from 2016 - 2017. He is currently the Israel/Palestine and Economics of Conflict Analyst at the International Crisis Group. His book Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance was published by Stanford University Press. Tareq holds a PhD in International Relations from Kings College London, which he completed alongside a career as an energy consultant. He also holds degrees from the University of Cambridge (International Relations) and Imperial College London (Chemical Engineering). Tareq is an adjunct visiting fellow at the US Middle East Project. His writings have appeared in the New York Review Daily, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Sada: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, The Daily Star, Al Ghad and Open Democracy.

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