Tareq Baconi serves as the president of the board of Al-Shabaka. He is the former senior analyst for Israel/Palestine and Economics of Conflict at the International Crisis Group, based in Ramallah, and the author of Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018). His writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, and the Washington Post, among others.