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  • Biography
  • 2025
  • First edition.

One day, everyone will have always been against this

Omar El Akkad, (1982-)

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"From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an empire that doesn't consider you fully human. On October 25th, 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 was viewed more than ten million times. One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This chronicles the deep fracture that has occurred for Black, brown, Indigenous Americans, as well as the upcoming generation, many of whom had clung to a thread of faith in Western ideals, in the idea that their countries, or the countries of their adoption, actually attempted to live up to the values they espouse"--

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Title Statement One day, everyone will have always been against this / Omar El Akkad.
Author El Akkad, Omar, 1982-
Publication Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart,2025.
Edition First edition.
Extent of Item vii, 187 pages ;
ISBN 9780771021787 (hardcover)
Other Number pr07769289
Contents Departure --Witness --Values --Language --Resistance --Craft --Lesser evils --Fear --Leavetaking --Arrival.
Summary "From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an empire that doesn't consider you fully human. On October 25th, 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 was viewed more than ten million times. One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This chronicles the deep fracture that has occurred for Black, brown, Indigenous Americans, as well as the upcoming generation, many of whom had clung to a thread of faith in Western ideals, in the idea that their countries, or the countries of their adoption, actually attempted to live up to the values they espouse"--
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By Topic Arab American authors--Biography
Arabs--Social conditions--United States
Israel-Hamas War, 2023-
Journalists--Biography--United States
Muslims--Social conditions--United States
By Name El Akkad, Omar,1982-
By Genre Biographies
Autobiographies
Personal narratives
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