A searing reckoning with Western ideals and complicity.
Journalist and novelist Omar El Akkad delivers an urgent moral reckoning with what it means to live in the West, shaped by two decades of reporting and the devastation in Gaza. A powerful, personal chronicle of disillusionment and the search for hope amid injustice.
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A searing reckoning with Western ideals and complicity.
Journalist and novelist Omar El Akkad delivers an urgent moral reckoning with what it means to live in the West, shaped by two decades of reporting and the devastation in Gaza. A powerful, personal chronicle of disillusionment and the search for hope amid injustice.
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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 21st 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”
- About The Author
- 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
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- 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
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