Tareq Baconi & Saleem Haddad on Palestine, Exile, Queerness, and the Meaning of Return

Palestinian writers Tareq Baconi and Saleem Haddad come together for a conversation that moves between fiction and memoir, politics and intimacy.

Centered on their new books, Fire in Every Direction and Floodlines alongside their broader reflections on Palestine, queerness, and exile, the discussion will consider how storytelling can illuminate the emotional realities of family, memory, and belonging, and what it means to be a Palestinian writer working today.

Writers whose work fuses the political and personal, Baconi and Haddad will explore the enduring question of what it means to return, emotionally, imaginatively, and geographically when home itself is defined by rupture.

🫓 Enjoy our mezzeh menu and drinks from 18:00