Tareq Baconi and Saleem Haddad in Conversation

Writers Tareq Baconi and Saleem Haddad come together for a conversation spanning memoir and fiction, politics and intimacy, exile and return. Focusing on their brand new books—Baconi’s Fire in Every Direction and Haddad’s Floodlines—they will explore how personal narrative and imaginative storytelling convey the lived experience of displacement, desire, and belonging. Two writers who brilliantly fuse the political and private, they will reflect on queer awakening, fractured family ties, and the enduring question of what it means to return—emotionally, imaginatively, and geographically—when home itself is defined by rupture.

Co-presented with The Palestine Festival of Literature, Hodder & Stoughton and Europa Editions. 

Doors open at 5.30pm; talk starts at 6pm and finishes at 7.30pm.