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Omar El Akkad on re-evaluating the West in light of Gaza war

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TORONTO — In some ways, Omar El Akkad's "One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" is a time capsule.

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Calgary Herald

Omar El Akkad writes scathing takedown of 'the privilege of looking away' in book of essays around war in Gaza

It would be understandable if many readers assumed that Omar El Akkad's book of essays One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, began with the tweet.

4 days ago·Calgary, Canada

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The Hamilton Spectator

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Omar El Akkad on re-evaluating the West in light of Gaza war

TORONTO - In some ways, Omar El Akkad's "One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" is a time capsule.

5 days ago·Hamilton, Canada

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The Stranger

Author Q&A: Omar El Akkad on Gaza, Power, and the Stories Empires Steal

Omar El Akkad will discuss his book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This with Ijeoma Oluo at Seattle Public Library - Central Library. by Emma Pattee It all began with a tweet. 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’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s t…

6 days ago·Seattle, United States

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1059theregion.com

Omar El Akkad on re-evaluating the West in light of Gaza war – 105.9 The Region

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 seen from the other side of the world, and an indictment of the West. “It’s also a book that’s very much concerned with the future of a kind of society that would allow such horror to happen. And in that sense, I think it doesn’t just cast forward, it also cast…

5 days ago

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