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Omar El Akkad

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19 days ago

Madeleine Thien: ‘I ran in blizzards and -20C – all I wanted was to listen to Middlemarch’

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The Canadian author on mountain running to George Eliot, powerful reminders from Omar El Akkad and the translation that brought Homer’s Iliad to life

My earliest reading memory
Resting in my father’s a…

32 days ago

3 months ago

‘I’m sitting on the side that’s launching bombs’: author Omar El Akkad on the hypocrisy of the west

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The award-winning writer’s new book contends with how the war on Gaza shattered his fragile faith in the so-called free world

  • The ugly truth of American violence has never been plainer | Omar El Akkad

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The ugly truth of American violence has never been plainer

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

An extract from Omar El Akkad’s new book argues that Gaza put to bed the fantasy of the USA as freedom fighter

  • ‘I’m sitting on the side that’s launching bombs’: author Omar El Akkad on the hypocrisy o…

One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This by Omar El Akkad review – Gaza and the sound of silence

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

This powerful new book examines the moral contradictions of the west and asks what liberal values mean in the face of such brutal and sustained obliteration of human life

Like many people, I have foll…

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