Field Ramble with Omar El Akkad
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On this episode we meet novelist Omar El Akkad to discuss One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. Published by Canongate (27.02 - UK) it is a powerful meditation on what it means to live in the heart of an empire, an indictment of Western complicity in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians and an exploration of the hypocrisies on which we build our lives.
Drawing from Omar’s own journalistic experience reporting on years of the ‘War on Terror,’ and the migration of his childhood, this book chronicles a painful realisation of all that keeps power in place. It is a…
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