What Now? On Palestine, Freedom and Our Global Futures is a treatise and a roadmap for political thought and action by scholar and writer Tareq Baconi. Drawing from his extensive work with Palestinian and international activists, and decades of long-standing principles, the book distills three strategic priorities to guide activists and allies: refuse the prospect of a divided homeland, resuscitate the revolutionary principles of the Palestinian commitment to freedom and justice, and decompose Zionism. 

Imagining a free Palestine is not the same as turning back the clock to pre-1948, Baconi writes, but a new struggle for a just future: not by fighting Jewish presence in Palestine, but by ending Jewish political exclusivity. A free Palestine would challenge and upturn the colonial and geoncidal mindsets that continue to animate Western thought - the ramifications of justice would therefore extend far beyond Palestine. 

Tareq Baconi is a Palestinian writer, scholar, and activist. He is the grandson of refugees from Jerusalem and Haifa and grew up between Amman and Beirut. His work has appeared in, among others, The New York Times and The Baffler, and he contributes essays to The New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. He has also written for film; his award-winning BFI short One Like Him, a queer love story set in Jordan, screened in over thirty festivals. He is the author of What Now, Hamas Contained: A History of Palestinian Resistance, which was shortlisted for the Palestine Book Award, and Fire in Every Direction. 

Rashid Khalidi was the Edward Said chair of modern Arab history at Columbia University for more than 20 years. He is the author of the best-selling The Hundred Years' War on Palestine, and co-editor of The Journal of Palestine Studies. His next book is about Ireland as a laboratory for British colonial processes in Palestine.