In the weeks after October 7, 2023, Omar El Akkad, the author and journalist ... (He has previously written fiction, including, notably, American War, from 2017.) “Of course the Republicans would be ...

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We begin with Netanyahu renewing the war on Gaza with a furious bombing campaign ... as MAGA fascism begins to take hold at home, is Omar El Akkad, an author and journalist. He was born in Egypt, grew ...

In Part 2 of our interview with Omar El Akkad, he discusses the roots of his new book about the war on Gaza, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, and how he draws hope from people ...

You suspect that there was no other way for Omar El Akkad to write the clear-eyed and coruscating ... As a reporter for The Globe and Mail in Canada, El Akkad has covered the War on Terror, Guantanamo ...

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It would be understandable if many readers assumed that Omar El Akkad’s book of essays ... including the controversial dystopian bestseller American War and its acclaimed follow-up What Strange ...

Omar El Akkad’s new best-seller about the war on ... Toronto’s Globe and Mail before he wrote the acclaimed novels American ...

Israel had declared war on Hamas after the Oct 7 attack. On top of the bombardment, there was a full siege in place – civilians in Gaza were cut off from water, electricity, and food. As Omar ...

Two books into his career, Omar El Akkad has already proven himself a novelist of rare boldness and ambition. The Egyptian-Canadian writer’s celebrated dystopian debut, “American War” (2017), asks us ...

Buy the book For every generation, journalist and novelist Omar El Akkad writes ... the whole endeavour together” is false. For El Akkad, that moment came in October 2023, with the start of the war on ...