The Year that Made Me: Omar El Akkad, 2001

26/10/2025 27 min
The Year that Made Me: Omar El Akkad, 2001

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Omar El Akaad was at college in 2001 when the opportunity to become a writer opened up before him. Over the following decades this path would lead him through the violence of war in Afghanistan, the hidden injustices of Guantanomo Bay and the electric energy of the Arab Spring in Egypt. It would also allow him, in 2023 to voice his anger, disgust and outrage at the images he saw coming out of Gaza, which he has stilled in his latest book, part memoir, part searing manifesto, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. Guest: Omar El Akkad, journalist and author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This