Join us for a Public Conversation with Omar El Akkad. He is an award winning novelist and journalist. He will discuss his latest book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, is a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values. His book won the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
This event is sponsored by the University Honors College, University Library, the Department of English and Creative Writing, the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, the School of Gender, Race, and Nations, Italian Languages in the Department of World Language and Literature, and the Department of Film.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • PALESTINE BOOK AWARD WINNER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM
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