I don't steal in whole characters, but I do steal in slivers of people. - Omar El Akkad This came in the context of all of these Arab leaders in the country of my birth, the countries I grew up ...
El Akkad has encountered both sides of that anger ... and I’m not saying good or bad, have come from people who have a similar sense of being unanchored. So many lines and passages stuck out ...
El Akkad spoke to the Tyee about numbness ... You know, there’s obviously the “go back where you came from” crowd, and people who have not read the book at all making deliberately ...
This is El Akkad's nonfiction debut ... 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. (From Knopf) ...
“I’ve always been passionate about technology’s transformative potential to connect people, build communities, and create opportunities,” Akkad says. “At Meta, our solutions are not just ...
El Akkad draws on his time reporting from global flashpoints including ... on which tensions rise between the people clustered around him — including a cynical smuggler, a phlegmatic literature ...