One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: an evening with Omar el Akkad

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"One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is , when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.”

Over the past twenty years, award-winning novelist and journalist Omar el Akkad has been reporting from the ground-zeros of war and social justice issues - from Black Lives Matter protests, to climate change and Wars on Terror. His debut non-fiction book chronicles the author’s realisation, precipitated by the slaughter in Gaza, that much of what the West promises is a lie.

It is 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.

We invite you to join us as we welcome Omar el Akkad to Edinburgh for an evening of essential truths and reckonings, visions and honesty.

Our speaker:

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.