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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781923058569
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2025
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Description:
'A howl from the heart of our age' Richard Flanagan
'A unique and urgently needed book.' Naomi Klein
'A powerful, uncomfortable but thought-provoking read.' Dua Lipa
'Clear, elegant and devastatingly truthful...Read this shatteringly honest book.' Max Porter
From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad, an urgent and necessary reckoning with what it means to live in the West today.
As an immigrant, Omar El Akkad believed the West would be a place of freedom and justice for all. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the various Wars on Terror, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests, and more, and watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, he has come to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is a chronicle of that painful realisation, a moral grappling with what it means-as a citizen of the US, as a father-to carve out some sense of possibility during these devastating times.
This is El Akkad's nonfiction debut, his most raw and vulnerable work to date. It's a heartfelt breakup letter with the West, a brilliant articulation of the same breakup we are watching all over the world, in family rooms, on university campuses, on city streets. This book is for everyone who wants something better than what the West has served up. This is the book for our time.
PRAISE-
'I can't think of a more important piece of writing to read right now... I found hope here, and help, to face what the world is now, all that it isn't
ISBN: 9781923058569
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2025
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Description:
'A howl from the heart of our age' Richard Flanagan
'A unique and urgently needed book.' Naomi Klein
'A powerful, uncomfortable but thought-provoking read.' Dua Lipa
'Clear, elegant and devastatingly truthful...Read this shatteringly honest book.' Max Porter
From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad, an urgent and necessary reckoning with what it means to live in the West today.
As an immigrant, Omar El Akkad believed the West would be a place of freedom and justice for all. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the various Wars on Terror, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests, and more, and watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, he has come to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is a chronicle of that painful realisation, a moral grappling with what it means-as a citizen of the US, as a father-to carve out some sense of possibility during these devastating times.
This is El Akkad's nonfiction debut, his most raw and vulnerable work to date. It's a heartfelt breakup letter with the West, a brilliant articulation of the same breakup we are watching all over the world, in family rooms, on university campuses, on city streets. This book is for everyone who wants something better than what the West has served up. This is the book for our time.
PRAISE-
'I can't think of a more important piece of writing to read right now... I found hope here, and help, to face what the world is now, all that it isn't