Tareq Baconi and Rashid Khalidi: NYC Book Launch of What Now?

The Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest) and McNally Jackson Books present the New York City launch of What Now? On Palestine, Freedom and Our Global Futures by Tareq Baconi on Friday, November 13, 2026. Baconi will appear in conversation with historian Rashid Khalidi to discuss the book’s framework for Palestinian liberation, followed by an audience question-and-answer session and a book signing.

Baconi serves as the president of the board of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network and was previously a senior analyst for the International Crisis Group. His previous works include Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance and Fire in Every Direction: A Memoir. Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017.

In What Now?, Baconi draws on years of dialogue with organizers across Palestine and the global solidarity movement to outline three strategic imperatives: rejecting partition or any fragmented homeland, reclaiming the anticolonial core of the Palestinian struggle, and dismantling Zionism as a settler-colonial and apartheid framework.

The gathering takes place at McNally Jackson’s Seaport store, located at 4 Fulton Street in Lower Manhattan. The event starts at 7:00 p.m. Listings for the closing time diverge: PalFest and Menna schedule the program through 8:30 p.m., while McNally Jackson lists an end time of 8:00 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public, though advance registration is required through McNally Jackson’s event page. For RSVPs and additional details, visit palfest.org or mcnallyjackson.com.