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One day, everyone will have always been against this / Omar El Akkad.
"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 that doesn't consider you fully human. On October 25th, 2023, 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 more than ten million times. One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This chronicles the deep fracture that 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780771021787 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: vii, 187 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Toronto, ON : McClelland & Stewart, 2025.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Departure -- Witness -- Values -- Language -- Resistance -- Craft -- Lesser evils -- Fear -- Leavetaking -- Arrival. |
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| Genre: | Biographies. Autobiographies. Personal narratives. |
Available copies
- 1 of 2 copies available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | 819.36 ElAkk | 31681010438646 | NONFIC | Checked out | 02/19/2026 |
| Lakeshore Branch | 819.36 ElAkk | 31681010407765 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Random House, Inc.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION ⢠Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction ⢠Longlisted for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction ⢠A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 â¢Â A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice ⢠Named a Best Book of 2025 by The Globe and Mail, NPR, Book Riot
From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values.
On October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: âOne day, when itâs safe, when thereâs no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when itâs too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.â This tweet has been viewed more than 10 million times.
As an immigrant who came to the West, El Akkad believed that it promised freedom. A place of justice for all. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the War on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests, and more, and watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, El Akkad has come to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie. That there will always be entire groups of human beings it has never intended to treat as fully humanânot just Arabs or Muslims or immigrants, but whoever falls outside the boundaries of privilege. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is a chronicle of that painful realization, a moral grappling with what it means, as a citizen of the U.S., as a father, to carve out some sense of possibility in a time of carnage.
This is El Akkadâs nonfiction debut, his most raw and vulnerable work to date, a heartsick breakup letter with the West. It is a brilliant articulation of the same breakup we are watching all over the United States, in family rooms, on college campuses, on city streets; the consequences of this rupture are just beginning. This book is for all the people who want something better than what the West has served up. This is the book for our time.
