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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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About This Book
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 which doesn't consider you fully human.On Oct 25th, 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 over 10 million times. One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This chronicles the deep fracture which 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. This book is a reckoning with what it means to live in the west, and what it means to live in a world run by a small group of countries—America, the UK, France and Germany. It will be The Fire Next Time for a generation that understands we're undergoing a shift in the so-called 'rules-based order,' a generation that understands the west can no longer be trusted to police and guide the world, or its own cities and campuses. It draws on intimate details of Omar's own story as an emigrant who grew up believing in the western project, who was catapulted into journalism by the rupture of 9/11. This book is his heartsick breakup letter with the west. It is a breakup we are watching all over the U.S., on college campuses, on city streets, and the consequences of this rupture will be felt by all of us. His book is for all the people who want something better than what the west has served up. This is the book for our time.
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"a call to look into mirrors around the world and ask who is really free."
"The unsettling power of his writing on Gaza conveys the magnitude of what has happened there most powerfully in the accounts of individual deaths that punctuate his narrative, their cumulative effect amounting to a kind of haunting."
"In One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, his fiercely agonized new book about American and European responses to the devastation of Gaza, El Akkad is trying, in a very different way, to do the same thing — to force American readers to think of Palestinian victims not as 'them' but as 'us' ..."
"Terrifying, shameful, and necessary testimony."
"A philosophically rich critique of state violence and mass apathy."
"This book isn't quite a memoir, though El Akkad does weave in the story of his family's various migrations ..."
"It takes courage too, to read it."
"For me it was cathartic, almost spiritual, to have these ugly truths articulated."
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