{"id":190730,"date":"2025-11-16T11:31:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T11:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=190730"},"modified":"2025-11-16T11:31:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T11:31:16","slug":"fire-in-every-direction-palestinian-author-tareq-baconi-on-gaza-zionism-embracing-queerness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=190730","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fire in Every Direction&#8221;: Palestinian Author Tareq Baconi on Gaza, Zionism &#038; Embracing Queerness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian writer Tareq Baconi joins us to discuss his new memoir, Fire in Every Direction, a chronicle of his political and queer coming of age growing up between Amman and Beirut as the grandson of refugees from Jerusalem and Haifa. While \u201cLGBTQ+ labels have also been used by the West as part of empire,\u201d with colonial projects seeking to portray Native populations as backward and in need of saving&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2025\/11\/6\/tareq_baconi\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian writer Tareq Baconi joins us to discuss his new memoir, Fire in Every Direction,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190730-fire-in-every-direction-palestinian-author-tareq-baconi-on-gaza-zionism-embracing-queerness.jpg",1920,1080,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190730-fire-in-every-direction-palestinian-author-tareq-baconi-on-gaza-zionism-embracing-queerness-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190730-fire-in-every-direction-palestinian-author-tareq-baconi-on-gaza-zionism-embracing-queerness-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190730-fire-in-every-direction-palestinian-author-tareq-baconi-on-gaza-zionism-embracing-queerness-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190730-fire-in-every-direction-palestinian-author-tareq-baconi-on-gaza-zionism-embracing-queerness-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190730-fire-in-every-direction-palestinian-author-tareq-baconi-on-gaza-zionism-embracing-queerness-1536x864.jpg",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190730-fire-in-every-direction-palestinian-author-tareq-baconi-on-gaza-zionism-embracing-queerness.jpg",1920,1080,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190730-fire-in-every-direction-palestinian-author-tareq-baconi-on-gaza-zionism-embracing-queerness-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190730-fire-in-every-direction-palestinian-author-tareq-baconi-on-gaza-zionism-embracing-queerness-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190730-fire-in-every-direction-palestinian-author-tareq-baconi-on-gaza-zionism-embracing-queerness-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=14\" rel=\"category\">BREAKING NEWS<\/a>","tag_info":"BREAKING NEWS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/190731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}