One day, everyone will have always been against this

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 would be a place of freedom and justice for all. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the various Wars on Terror, Ferguson, 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.

This powerful book 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.

Praise for “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This”

Each generation looks back in judgement, and sometimes in horror, at the moral blind spots of earlier generations and previous ages. To get a glimpse of how we in the early 21^st century might one day be judged for our passivity and hypocrisy, I urge you to read Omar El Akkad’s astonishing book

“David Olusoga”

In this powerful indictment of Western complicity in the genocide of Palestinians, Omar El Akkad asks: how are we supposed to go on living in this world? He looks for his answer to the world’s colonised and oppressed, who have always lived according to a love that cannot be acknowledged by the empire, because it’s a people’s love for one another.

“Isabella Hammad”, (author of Enter, Ghost)

Is this the most urgent book you can read right now? Yes, it is.

Is this the most moral book you can read right now? It sure is.

Is this the most eye-opening book right now? Yep.

Is this the most needed book for our times? Absolutely.

“Rabih Alameddine”

This book is a howl from the heart of our age. I struggle to find more precise wording that might capture its ferocious, fracturing rage, as it seeks to describe the indescribable, make coherent an increasingly incoherent world.

“Richard Flanagan”

ISBN

9781837264186

Format

Hardback

Publisher

Canongate, (13 February 2025)

Number of Pages

208

Weight

308 grams

Language

English

Dimensions

220 x 141 x 19 mm

Categories:

Memoirs Democracy