From Enheduanna to Plato and Aristotle, ancient thinkers viewed writing as a deeply human act that expresses experience and ...

Congratulations on the success of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. The title feels both prophetic and resigned. How did you arrive at it? Omar El Akkad attends the 76th National ...

Omar El Akkad at the Portland Book Festival. (Henry Cromett / Courtesy of the Portland Book Festival) Portland author Omar El Akkad won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for One Day, Everyone ...

In his latest book "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This," El Akkad confronts the silences that enable injustice, urging readers to reckon with complicity, narrative power, and the ...

The Akkadian Empire was an ancient empire that existed towards the end of the 3 rd millennium BC. This was the first empire in Mesopotamia, and some consider it to be the first true empire in world ...

In the history of Ancient Mesopotamia, that renowned cradle of human civilization, there were many great kingdoms, city-states, and even empires. One of these was the famed Akkadian Empire, centered ...

Canadian writer Omar El Akkad has been named a finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. The National Book Awards are annual American literary prizes administered by the National Book ...

Omar El Akkad does not want you to look away. An award-winning journalist and novelist, El Akkad was born in Egypt, lived as a teenager in Qatar and Canada, and migrated as an adult to the US, where ...

As a novelist, Omar El Akkad is invested in what hides in plain sight, in probing why we are not comfortable seeing things as they are. His characters are jostled out of the illusions behind which ...