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URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/omar-el-akkad-with-ijeoma-oluo-at-s
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SUMMARY:Omar El Akkad with Ijeoma Oluo at Seattle Public Library
DESCRIPTION:One Day\, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is a powe
 rful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its funda
 mental values.\n\nOn October 25\, 2023\, after just three weeks of the bom
 bardment 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 alw
 ays been against this.” This tweet has been viewed more than 10 million 
 times.\n\nAs an immigrant who came to the West\, El Akkad believed that it
  promised freedom. A place of justice for all. But in the past twenty year
 s\, reporting on the War on Terror\, Ferguson\, climate change\, Black Liv
 es Matter protests\, and more\, and watching the unmitigated slaughter in 
 Gaza\, El Akkad has come to the conclusion that much of what the West prom
 ises is a lie. That there will always be entire groups of human beings it 
 has never intended to treat as fully human—not just Arabs or Muslims or 
 immigrants\, but whoever falls outside the boundaries of privilege. One Da
 y\, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is a chronicle of that pai
 nful realization\, a moral grappling with what it means\, as a citizen of 
 the U.S.\, as a father\, to carve out some sense of possibility in a time 
 of carnage.\n\nThis is El Akkad’s nonfiction debut\, his most raw and vu
 lnerable work to date\, a heartsick breakup letter with the West. It is a 
 brilliant articulation of the same breakup we are watching all over the Un
 ited States\, in family rooms\, on college campuses\, on city streets\; th
 e consequences of this rupture are just beginning. This book is for all th
 e people who want something better than what the West has served up. This 
 is the book for our time.\nAbout the Author\nOmar El Akkad is an author an
 d 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 Association Award and the Oregon
  Book Award for fiction. His books have been translated into thirteen lang
 uages. His debut novel\, American War\, was named by the BBC as one of one
  hundred novels that shaped our world.\n\nIjeoma Oluo is a writer\, speake
 r\, and internet yeller. She is the author of the #1 New York Timesbestsel
 lers Be a Revolution\, So You Want to Talk About Race\, and Mediocre. Her 
 work on race has been featured in the Guardian\, the New York Times\, and 
 the Washington Post\, among many other publications. Named on the 2021 Tim
 e 100 Next list and The Root 100\, she received the 2018 Feminist Humanist
  Award and the 2020 Harvard Humanist of the Year Award from the American H
 umanist Association. She lives in Seattle\, Washington.\n\nPurchase a copy
  of One Day\, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.
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LOCATION:Seattle Public Library - Central Branch Howard Wright Room\, 1000 
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