Hamas Contained: the Rise & Pacification of Palestinian Resistance I Tareq Baconi I October 2019

'Hamas Contained' offers the first thirty-year history of the group on its own terms drawing interviews with organisation leaders, as well as publications from the group. The book maps Hamas's transition from fringe military resistance towards governance and shows how, under Israel's approach of managing rather than resolving the conflict, Hamas's demand for Palestinian sovereignty has effectively been neutralised by its containment in Gaza. About the speakers: Tareq Baconi is the International Crisis Group's Analyst for Israel/Palestine and Economics of Conflict. His book, 'Hamas Contained: the Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance,' was published by Stanford University Press in 2018. Prior to joining Crisis Group, Tareq was a Visiting Fellow at Columbia University's Middle East Institute. His writing has appeared in Arabic in Al-Ghad and Al-Quds al-Arabi, and in English in The New York Review Daily, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, The Nation, The Daily Star (Lebanon), and al-Jazeera. He has provided analysis for print and broadcast media including The New York Times, The New Yorker, BBC, National Public Radio and Democracy Now!. José Vericat is the Carter Center Representative for Israel-Palestine. He has a PhD in Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford, where he was the Sheikh Zayed Contemporary Islamic Studies Scholar, and a MA in international affairs from Columbia University. This event was hosted by CBRL Kenyon Institute in collaboration with the Educational Bookshop, the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem, and Stanford University Press on 30 October 2019.