Tareq Baconi

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About The Author

Tareq Baconi is a Palestinian writer, scholar, and activist. He is the grandson of refugees from Jerusalem and Haifa and grew up between Amman and Beirut. His work has appeared in, among others, The New York Times and The Baffler, and he contributes essays to The New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. He has also written for film; his award-winning BFI short One Like Him, a queer love story set in Jordan, screened in over thirty festivals. He is the author of What NowHamas Contained: A History of Palestinian Resistance, which was shortlisted for the Palestine Book Award, and Fire in Every Direction.

Books by Tareq Baconi

What Now

On Palestine, Freedom, and Our Global Future

A stunning, soul-stirring, philosophical and political treatise on what liberation for Palestine—and all people—will look like in the twenty-first century.

Trade Paperback

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    Fire in Every Direction

    A Memoir

    LitHub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025

    “I am forever changed after reading this book.” —Javier Zamora, author of Solito

    From the renowned Palestinian scholar, a memoir of political and queer awakening, of impossible love amids...

    Hardcover

    LIST PRICE $29.00

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