Fire In Every Direction (a Memoir)
By (author) Baconi, Tareq
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By (author) Baconi, Tareq
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From the renowned Palestinian scholar, a memoir of political and queer awakening, of impossible love amidst generations of displacement, and what it means to return home.
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In Fire in Every Direction, we not only see how the oppression of a people has affected one Palestinian family, but how oppression in all forms - colonialism, patriarchy, homophobia, to name a few - creates dishonesty and masks within all of us. Tareq Baconi offers us a love letter, a blueprint on how to craft a life that questions the present, dreaming a better future in the process. By reading this beautifully honest memoir, we can learn to shed what must be shed in order to regain an allegiance toward justice, toward freedom, toward a liberation for all. Baconi has shown me that revolutions begin in the self; I am forever changed after reading this book
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In this moving and generous memoir, Tareq Baconi refuses to separate the story of sexual identity from the story of political commitment, and in so doing models a way to see our personal struggles as intertwined with our collective ones. Fire in Every Direction is a beautiful account of one man''s confrontation with the histories, silences, and desires - both communal and private - that have made him who he is.
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In a time when it can feel like language has been stripped of meaning and words have lost all power, Fire in Every Direction arrives as an affirmation and a refusal of silence. Luminous, moving, and achingly beautiful, every page of this book is guided by Tareq Baconi''s fierce intelligence and a tenderness that this world does not deserve. You do not read this book to repair your heart, you read this book to understand the fissures
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A powerful memoir of queer and Palestinian reckoning. Tareq Baconi creates "a gaze of our own" by bringing his open heart to a tough confrontation with histories both intimate and diasporic. An important contribution to our many literatures.
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With passion, sincerity, and wit, Baconi writes about the world he grew up in, about a time and place long gone, revivified in these beautiful pages. Spending time with the real people in Fire in Every Direction is a delight. Read this book!
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With eloquence, passion, and insight, Tareq Baconi weaves his personal story as a queer kid growing up in the refugee community in Jordan, into the larger narrative of his family''s dislocation, and the Palestinian struggle. In so doing, he gives new meaning to the concept of liberation, personal and political. Fire in Every Direction is a primarily a love story: about how one learns to over
Short description/annotation:
From the renowned Palestinian scholar, a memoir of political and queer awakening, of impossible love amidst generations of displacement, and what it means to return home.
Description:
''A book filled with love, from and for his own family, for the region, Palestine and queer culture''
Guardian
''Luminous, moving, and achingly beautiful''
Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King
Tareq''s grandmother fled Haifa in 1948, as Zionist militias seized the city. In the late 1970s she escaped civil war in Beirut with her daughter. The family eventually settled in Amman, but a young Tareq still felt trapped: by cultures of silence, by a sense of not belonging, by a growing awareness that he was in love with his childhood best friend.
Both a coming-of-age tale and a love story, Fire in Every Direction is an astounding memoir of loss and estrangement, family inheritance and the awakening of political consciousness.
''I love this book''
Judith Butler, author of Who''s Afraid of Gender?
''A powerful memoir of queer and Palestinian reckoning''
Sarah Schulman, author of The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity
Review quote:
In Fire in Every Direction, we not only see how the oppression of a people has affected one Palestinian family, but how oppression in all forms - colonialism, patriarchy, homophobia, to name a few - creates dishonesty and masks within all of us. Tareq Baconi offers us a love letter, a blueprint on how to craft a life that questions the present, dreaming a better future in the process. By reading this beautifully honest memoir, we can learn to shed what must be shed in order to regain an allegiance toward justice, toward freedom, toward a liberation for all. Baconi has shown me that revolutions begin in the self; I am forever changed after reading this book
Review quote:
In this moving and generous memoir, Tareq Baconi refuses to separate the story of sexual identity from the story of political commitment, and in so doing models a way to see our personal struggles as intertwined with our collective ones. Fire in Every Direction is a beautiful account of one man''s confrontation with the histories, silences, and desires - both communal and private - that have made him who he is.
Review quote:
In a time when it can feel like language has been stripped of meaning and words have lost all power, Fire in Every Direction arrives as an affirmation and a refusal of silence. Luminous, moving, and achingly beautiful, every page of this book is guided by Tareq Baconi''s fierce intelligence and a tenderness that this world does not deserve. You do not read this book to repair your heart, you read this book to understand the fissures
Review quote:
A powerful memoir of queer and Palestinian reckoning. Tareq Baconi creates "a gaze of our own" by bringing his open heart to a tough confrontation with histories both intimate and diasporic. An important contribution to our many literatures.
Review quote:
With passion, sincerity, and wit, Baconi writes about the world he grew up in, about a time and place long gone, revivified in these beautiful pages. Spending time with the real people in Fire in Every Direction is a delight. Read this book!
Review quote:
With eloquence, passion, and insight, Tareq Baconi weaves his personal story as a queer kid growing up in the refugee community in Jordan, into the larger narrative of his family''s dislocation, and the Palestinian struggle. In so doing, he gives new meaning to the concept of liberation, personal and political. Fire in Every Direction is a primarily a love story: about how one learns to over
