{"title": "Meet the Bàrd - Tareq Baconi", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T21:00:00Z", "place": "Bàrd Books", "address": "Roman Road 341-343, E3 5QR London", "price": "From £5.00 (ticket only) to £12.99 (ticket plus book)", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "12.99", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics", "literature"], "description": "An exclusive pre-launch evening for Tareq Baconi's new book 'What Now', held in conversation with Eyal Weizman. Writer Tareq Baconi, a Palestinian writer, scholar and activist, presents a literary manifesto on Palestine and our collective future, arguing that Palestine is a litmus test whose repercussions extend beyond the Middle East. It is a philosophical and political treatise on what liberation for Palestine and our world will look like in the twenty-first century.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/meet-the-bard-tareq-baconi-41014/", "official_url": "https://www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-details/meet-the-bard-tareq-baconi", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f5703c8da5241981b0159f54855cc4de452787161f437c16996cc0c51c650347-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T21:00:00Z", "place": "Bàrd Books", "address": "Roman Road 341-343, E3 5QR London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Twelve Days That Shook the Middle East", "start": "2026-10-30T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-30T20:00:00Z", "place": "Ibraaz", "address": "Mortimer Street 93, W1W 7SS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://tickets.ibraaz.org/events/ibraaz/2449577/select-date?ref=website_widget", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "literature/non-fiction"], "description": "A talk marking the launch of the book Twelve Days That Shook the Middle East. 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The two speakers will discuss writing the book, journalism during a war in which many Palestinian colleagues were killed, and the virtues and pitfalls of prediction in conflict; proceeds from event sales go to the Galilee Foundation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/twelve-days-that-shook-the-middle-east-36604/", "official_url": "https://ibraaz.org/whats-on/twelve-days-that-shook-the-middle-east", "image": "https://noky.io/images/db44a1715990b2bfae3b80700b8ad6f51ec9d75464eec1aa4448e55b84f23f87-2000.webp"}, {"title": "2026 BRISMES Annual Lecture: Beyond Bearing Witness: Palestine, Knowledge Production and the Political Economy of the Future", "start": "2026-11-12T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "Free, registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/book-talk-twelve-days-shook-middle-east", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "history/colonialism"], "description": "A public lecture, also streamed online, discussing what forms of knowledge and analysis are needed beyond documenting conditions in Palestine. 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Karim Kattan, with Tareq Baconi, discusses his novel 'Eden at Dawn', a sweeping queer love story that begins in Jerusalem and develops past the oppressive weight of occupation. In it, Gabriel and Isaac fall in love amid a sandstorm in the labyrinthine old city, lose each other, and find each other again on a daring journey across Jericho to the West Bank. Mixing traditional orality with classical culture and the marvellous with the tragically real, the story is a lyrical cry for love in a divided land.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/eden-at-dawn-36605/", "official_url": "https://ibraaz.org/whats-on/eden-at-dawn", "image": "https://noky.io/images/569cb62d0f078772f2d22c3a76d07f39fc95607629f6208bcb418ee8480b29d0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Hope Working Group: Roundtable and Book Launch, David Chandler's Hope (Routledge Shortcuts)", "start": "2026-11-12T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "University of Westminster", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.routledge.com/Hope-Shortcuts-to-a-Big-Idea/Chandler/p/book/9781041058656", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/books", "society/politics"], "description": "A roundtable and book launch for David Chandler's Hope (Routledge Shortcuts), hosted by the Hope Working Group. Discussants include Noga Glucksam, Seán Molloy, Nitasha Kaul and Emma McCluskey, chaired by Aidan Hehir. The book explores the politics of hope against a world shaped by global crises, from political disillusionment to catastrophic climate change. 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