I’m also on BookTok. This week, we speak with Egyptian Canadian journalist-turned-author Omar El Akkad, whose memoir-manifesto “One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This” came out on Feb ...
“For now,” writes Omar El Akkad, the Egyptian-born author and journalist living in the United States, “it’s just so much easier to look away, to keep one’s head down, periodically ...
TORONTO - In some ways, Omar El Akkad’s “One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” is a time capsule. It is at once a contemporaneous account of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza as ...
In October 2023, weeks after Israel began bombing Gaza, the writer Omar El Akkad shared a video showing a destroyed city street in Gaza. El Akkad wrote, “One day, when it’s safe, when there ...
In his 197-page hybrid of essay, memoir and journalistic reflections, El Akkad calls on Western governments and citizens to shrug off their apathy and intervene to stop the state of Israel ...
Omar El Akkad is photographed in his publisher's Toronto offices as he promotes his debut novel "American War" in Toronto on Monday, April 3, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young TORONTO — In ...
TORONTO - In some ways, Omar El Akkad's "One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" is a time capsule. Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com Read the E-Edition, our digital ...
When author Omar El Akkad posted those words on social media on Oct. 25, 2023, he never imagined they would be seen by more than 10 million people. Now, almost a year and a half later, those words and ...
On 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 ...