{"title":"Omar El Akkad","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOmar El Akkad\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts compelling narratives that explore the intersections of personal and political upheaval. His works delve into the human experience amidst conflict and societal change, offering thought-provoking reflections on history, identity, and morality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect powerful storytelling that blends \u003cem\u003eGeneral Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e with insightful commentary on politics and current affairs, often framed through intimate, character-driven perspectives. 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Read this shatteringly honest book.'\u003c\/em\u003e — Max Porter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad, an urgent and necessary reckoning with what it means to live in the West today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs an immigrant, Omar El Akkad believed the West would be a place of freedom and justice for all. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the various Wars on Terror, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests, and more, and watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, he has come to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie. \u003cem\u003eOne Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This\u003c\/em\u003e is a chronicle of that painful realisation, a moral grappling with what it means — as a citizen of the US, as a father — to carve out some sense of possibility during these devastating times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is El Akkad's nonfiction debut, his most raw and vulnerable work to date. It's a heartfelt breakup letter with the West, a brilliant articulation of the same breakup we are watching all over the world, in family rooms, on university campuses, on city streets. This book is for everyone who wants something better than what the West has served up. This is the book for our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'I can't think of a more important piece of writing to read right now... I found hope here, and help, to face what the world is now, all that it isn't anymore. Please read this. I promise you won't regret it.'\u003c\/em\u003e — Tommy Orange, author of Wandering Stars\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'It is difficult to understand the nature of a true rupture while it is still tearing through the fabric of our world. Yet that is precisely what Omar El Akkad has accomplished, putting broken heart and shredded illusions into words with tremendous insight, skill and courage. A unique and urgently needed book.'\u003c\/em\u003e — Naomi Klein\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A startling, shocking, beautiful and essential book.'\u003c\/em\u003e — Brian Eno\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'If you read one thing this year, read this.'\u003c\/em\u003e — Amplify Bookstore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Part elegy, part rallying cry, this magnificent book should, and will, be required reading for future generations trying to reckon with one of humanity's darkest chapters.'\u003c\/em\u003e — Tea Obreht, author of The Morningside\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'I urge you to read Omar El Akkad's astonishing book.'\u003c\/em\u003e — David Olusoga, Black and British\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'I feel inadequate to describe a book like this with the right superlatives — I don't want to reduce the book down to one thing in doing so...but I hope Omar El Akkad's \u003cem\u003eOne Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This\u003c\/em\u003e will find a large audience.'\u003c\/em\u003e — Jeff Vandermeer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'This book is a reckoning. The lie that the West is founded upon — from the beginning — blooms in blood on the pages. This book is a love story in the face of genocide — a love born between the very peoples we have always colonised and killed as if they are the raw material of building nations. What a furious, perfect heart it took to stare into the abyss we call being human and emerge with a revolution song.'\u003c\/em\u003e — Lidia Yuknavitch\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A furious, intimate, profound articulation of the soul ache so many of us have been feeling every single day for the past fifteen months as we watch the Israel\/US assault on Gaza unfold. \u003cem\u003eOne Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This\u003c\/em\u003e is a book I wish I could gift to everyone in America. I have honestly never recommended a work of nonfiction as strongly as I do this one. There is no doubt in my mind that it will become one of the essential texts of this unfathomably dark time. A painful but essential indictment of a broken world.' 'Most Anticipated Books of 2025', Literary Hub\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Certain to become one of the essential texts of this terrible era.'\u003c\/em\u003e — LitHub\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Terrifying, shameful, and necessary testimony.'\u003c\/em\u003e — Lesley Williams, Booklist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'El Akkad's writing is mesmerising — it juggles the lyrical with the political, the comic with the analytical, and never once drops a ball. 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I found hope here, and help, to face what the world is now, all that it isn’t anymore. Please read this. I promise you won’t regret it.\" —Tommy Orange, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWandering Stars\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThere There\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOTABLE BOOK • PALESTINE BOOK AWARD WINNER • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” This tweet has been viewed more than 10 million times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs an immigrant who came to the West, El Akkad believed that it promised freedom. A place of justice for all. 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