Ramzy Baroud Launches Before the Flood at Seattle’s Third Place Books
Palestinian author, journalist, and historian Ramzy Baroud will embark on a worldwide tour, presenting h8is latest book, Before the Flood.
Third Place Books in Seattle, WA, will host the official book launch of Before the Flood: A Gaza Family Memoir Across Three Generations of Colonial Invasion, Occupation, and War in Palestine on Tuesday, February 11, at 7:00 PM, featuring Palestinian American author, journalist, and historian Dr. Ramzy Baroud.
Before the Flood is a deeply personal, multi-generational memoir chronicling the history of the Badrasawi family, tracing their journey from the era of British Mandate colonial rule in Palestine through decades of displacement, occupation, and war, culminating in the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Through lived experience and historical testimony, Baroud situates the Badrasawi family’s story within the broader Palestinian struggle against settler colonialism, dispossession, and erasure.
The book has already received critical acclaim from leading scholars, historians, and public intellectuals, including Noam Chomsky, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Susan Abulhawa, Omar Zahzah, and Ilan Pappé, who authored the book’s foreword. Praised for its historical rigor, narrative depth, and moral clarity, Before the Flood offers a rare, firsthand Palestinian account that challenges dominant historical narratives.
Dr. Ramzy Baroud is an internationally syndicated columnist, editor of The Palestine Chronicle, and the author of several influential books on Palestine and the Middle East. His work has appeared in major international media outlets and academic publications, and he is widely regarded as a leading voice in Palestinian historical and political analysis.
Baroud is widely credited with resituating Palestinian history within the people’s history genre, thereby challenging dominant conventional interpretations of Palestinian history.
The event at Third Place Books will include a reading, discussion, and audience Q&A, followed by a book signing.
Event Details
What: Book Launch and Author Talk — Before the Flood
Who: Dr. Ramzy Baroud
When: Tuesday, February 11, 2026 | 7:00 PM
Where: Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way NE A200, Lake Forest Park, Seattle, Washington
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