Tue 17 Feb
|BookBar Islington
BookBar Presents... An Evening with Tareq Baconi
Meet Tareq Baconi, the author of Fire in Every Direction, and hear about his stunning memoir exploring his family's movement across the Middle East from 1948 to today, as his identity as a Palestinian, queer man is shaped and reformed, and political consciousness and ideas of home are birthed.
Time & Location
17 Feb 2026, 19:00 – 20:15
BookBar Islington, 166 Blackstock Rd, London N5 1HA, UK
About the event
Meet Tareq Baconi, the author of Fire in Every Direction, and hear about his stunning memoir exploring his family's movement across the Middle East from 1948 to today, as his identity as a Palestinian, queer man is shaped and reformed, and political consciousness and ideas of home are birthed.
Join us at BookBar Islington to hear from Tareq on 17th February 2026. The bar will open at 6:30pm with the conversation starting at 7:00pm.
About Fire In Every Direction
Both a love story and a coming-of-age tale that spans countries and continents, Fire in Every Direction balances humour and loss, nostalgia and hope, as it takes us from the Middle East to London, and from 1948 to the present. Tareq Baconi crafts a deeply intimate, unforgettable portrait of how a political consciousness - desire and resistance - is passed down through generations. In 1948, Tareq's grandmother would flee Haifa as…
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Your ticket includes a hardback copy of Fire In Every Direction (RRP: £20) for collection at the event.
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