LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE PALESTINE BOOK
AWARDS One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is an urgent and necessary
reckoning about what it means to live in the West today. As an immigrant Omar El Akkad
believed the West offered freedom and justice for all. Over the past twenty years he reported
on the various Wars on Terror Ferguson climate change Black Lives Matter protests and more.
He won awards for his journalism and his fiction. But now watching the unmitigated slaughter
in Gaza he comes to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie. This
powerful book is a chronicle of Omar's painful realisation a moral grappling with what it
means - as a citizen as a father - to carve out some sense of possibility during these
devastating times. This is a book for those that have tired of moral emptiness. This is a book
for everyone who wants something better.
