Fire in every direction
A public conversation on the author Tareq Baconi’s powerful memoir, Fire in Every Direction.
Renowned Palestinian scholar, Tareq Baconi, joins us to discuss his memoir of political and queer awakening, of impossible love amidst generations of displacement, and what it means to return home.
Meet our speakers and chair
Dr 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.
Dr Mai Taha is an Assistant Professor in Human Rights at the Department of Sociology. Before joining LSE, she was a Lecturer in Law at Goldsmiths, University of London. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor in International Human Rights Law and Justice at the American University in Cairo (AUC), and a Visiting Assistant Professor at York University, Canada. Mai was also a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Toronto.
Dr Ayça Çubukçu is Associate Professor in Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she served as the Co-Director of LSE Human Rights for six years (2018-2024). Before her appointment at the LSE, Dr Çubukçu taught for the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University and the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University.
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