Fire from Shadows: Tareq Baconi’s Memoir

Tareeq Baconi.

Now that the current US administration has taken us to a whole new dimension of global chaos—where even a nominal respect for treaties among sovereign nations is consigned to mass detention centers—why the hell should anybody bother to read one more personal memoir? OK, this one is by a queer Palestinian; that’s significant. But this guy is a young, established author. A scholar, in fact, who lives in relative safety in London—not in Palestine, where, queer or not, his life...