Tareq Baconi is a writer. He serves as the president of the board of Al-Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network. Formerly, he was senior analyst for Israel/Palestine and Economics of Conflict at the International Crisis Group, based in Ramallah. His writing has appeared in the London Review of Books and the Washington Post among others. He is a frequent commentator in regional and international media and author of Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance (2018).