Tareq Baconi

Tareq Baconi is a Jordanian-born Palestinian writer and scholar. He is the author of Hamas Contained, a study of Palestinian resistance movements, and of Fire in Every Direction (2025), a memoir of "queer identity, family history, and political awakening". He grew up in Amman and Beirut. Baconi is a British citizen.

Career From 2016 to 2017, Baconi was a fellow at Al-Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network, He was also a senior analyst at the Ramallah-based International Crisis Group.

Baconi's book Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance was published by Stanford UP in 2018; one reviewer praised the "meticulous analysis" of Hamas-publications and secondary literature in Arabic. The book "traces developments within Hamas's ideology and politics from its inception to its entrenchment in the Gaza strip". For the European Council on Foreign Relations, he wrote reports on the role the Eastern Mediterranean could play in energy distribution (2017) and the geopolitical consequences of water scarcity in the Middle East and North Africa (2018).

His memoir Fire in Every Direction was published in 2025. Sceptre won the rights for the UK, while the US rights went to Atria Books. The book was described as "a queer coming-of-age story told against a backdrop of generations of violence and displacement, as the grandson of Palestinian refugees growing up between Lebanon and Jordan". It was the subject of a bidding war between various publishers.