OMAR EL AKKAD 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 Association Award and the Oregon Book Award for fiction. His debut novel, American War, was named by the BBC as one of one hundred novels that shaped our world. His second, What Strange Paradise, was published in 2021.
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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- Nombre de pages187
- FormatGrand Format
- PrésentationBroché
- Poids0.24 kg
- Dimensions14,0 cm × 21,0 cm × 1,4 cm
- ISBN978-1-5247-1281-5
- EAN9781524712815
- Date de parution25/02/2025
- ÉditeurAlfred Knopf
Résumé
On October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet "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." This tweet has been viewed more than 10 million times. As an immigrant who came to the West, El Akkad believed that it promised justice for all.
But reporting on the War on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, and Black Lives Matter protests, and watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, El Akkad has concluded that much of what the West promises is a lie. That there will always be entire groups of human beings it has never intended to treat as fully human. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is a chronicle of that painful realization, a moral grappling with what it means to carve out some sense of possibility in a time of carnage.
This is the book for all the people who want something better than what the West has served up. This is the book for our time.
But reporting on the War on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, and Black Lives Matter protests, and watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, El Akkad has concluded that much of what the West promises is a lie. That there will always be entire groups of human beings it has never intended to treat as fully human. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is a chronicle of that painful realization, a moral grappling with what it means to carve out some sense of possibility in a time of carnage.
This is the book for all the people who want something better than what the West has served up. This is the book for our time.
