Omar El Akkad

I’m joined on the show by today by author and commentator Omar El Akkad. Omar’s first two books were novels—American War (2017) and What Strange Paradise (2021). But it is his latest book, One day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, that put him on my radar.

This book is perhaps the most important book I’ve read in the last couple of years, as it brought together all that I have been thinking, and feeling, about Western Liberalism.

I talk to Omar about the larger themes that led to him writing the book, and his own questions of identity as a result of his experiences as an Arab writer in the West. Our conversation was powerful, intense and thought-provoking.

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