Tareq Baconi grew up in Jordan after his family was expelled first from Palestine and then from Lebanon during the civil war. He became an academic and leading expert on Hamas, while coming to terms with being gay man from a devout Christian family. 

• Guest: Tareq Baconi, Hamas expert and author of Fire in Every Direction: A Memoir, published by Hachette. Tareq is in Australia for Sydney Writer's Festival
• Producer: Catherine Zengerer