Who gets to tell the story of Palestine? For decades, Palestinian writers, historians, and journalists have worked to recover suppressed histories and share narratives of dispossession and exile.
In Tareq Baconi’s Fire in Every Direction, he traces his family’s history of displacement, from his grandmother fleeing Haifa in 1948 as Israeli militias seized the city, to their departure from Lebanon during the civil war, before they ultimately settled in Jordan. Ramzy Baroud’s Before the Flood reflects on Palestinian history and personal stories of his family and their village, reclaiming Palestinian narratives from distorted portrayals.
In this conversation, Baconi and Baroud will explore the ways Palestinian history is written and remembered, from family memory and storytelling to political analysis and the fight against erasure.
