One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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- ISBN 9781837264186
- Weight: 308g
- Dimensions: 141 x 220mm
- Publication Date: 13 Feb 2025
- Publisher: Canongate Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION
WINNER OF THE PALESTINE BOOK AWARDS
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is an urgent and necessary reckoning about what it means to live in the West today. As an immigrant, Omar El Akkad believed the West offered freedom and justice for all. Over the past twenty years he reported on the various Wars on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests, and more. He won awards for his journalism and his fiction. But now, watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, he comes to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie.
This powerful book is a chronicle of Omar's painful realisation, a moral grappling with what it means - as a citizen, as a father - to carve out some sense of possibility during these devastating times. This is a book for those that have tired of moral emptiness. This is a book for everyone who wants something better.
Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. He was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager and now lives in the United States. He is a two-time winner of both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award and the Oregon Book Award. His books have been translated into 13 languages. His debut novel, American War, was named by the BBC as one of 100 novels that shaped our world.
@omarelakkad | omarelakkad.com
