Sydney Writers' Festival - Omar El Akkad

Watch the livestream of Omar El Akkad talking about One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This streaming direct from the Sydney Writers’ Festival at Bowral Library!

Omar El Akkad believed the West would be a place of freedom and justice for all.

Join the award-winning novelist and journalist as he draws on a career covering the Wars on Terror, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests and Gaza to expose the broken promises of the West. Amid immense destruction One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This lays bare a society where the “least worst thing” absolves the soul.

In this powerful reckoning Omar asks, as both an Egyptian-born US citizen and a father, how do we carve out a sense of possibility in these devastating times? With host Sisonke Msimang.

Omar El Akkad:

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 Association Award and the Oregon Book Award for fiction. His books have been translated into 13 languages.

Sisonke Msimang:

Sisonke Msimang is the author of two books, Always Another Country and The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela.

Place: Henrietta Rose Room, Bowral Library
Date: Tuesday 21 October  
Time: 7:30PM
Bookings: are essential and can be made here. This is a free event.