Jola Naibi·Apr 8Book Review: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El AkkadI consider myself to be a well-read person, and I strive to be a well-informed global literary citizen, so it is with a certain degree of…
Jairo Huezo·Mar 8Language Reveals Who Power ProtectsWhile reading One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, I noticed how El Akkad explains that language is not neutral. The words…
Daniel Rodriguez·Feb 21Reading through El Akkad’s Arguments had Me Question if we are Guilty by Association.Everyone’s had that situation or a moment that we wish we could take back. A time when, in their mind, they planned to say one thing, maybe…
Jasira Graney·Feb 18From Feeling to SeeingWhen I first read Gaza in My Phone, I mostly reacted emotionally. One page that stayed with me shows a small figure surrounded by a large…
Roberto Romero·Feb 8Shevek (The Dispossessed), Two WorldsThe thing that seems the most alive of all to me this week after reading Chapters 1–4 of “The Dispossessed” is that sense of an outsider…
Sophia Angarica·Feb 8One Day, There Will Be Hope For Us“One day everyone will always be against this.” said by Omar El Akkad in his chapter 1 preface. This is an anticipation of the future, that…
Edouardsebastienlopez·Feb 8El Akkad Predicts A Future Where People Rewrite History To Pretend They Always Opposed Violence And…The title of El Akkad’s book, One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This leads me to think about his prediction after I finish…
Daniel Rodriguez·Feb 7Reading about Shevek and El Akkad’s Cultural Perspectives Had Me Thinking of the BoricuasIt is scary how something or someone can feel so distant and irrelevant until we find a similarity in our own lives. That we can weave an…
Elbita Guerra·Feb 1The Distance Between Seeing and WitnessingIn “Witness,” Omar El Akkad examines how witnessing violence is not the same as seeing it, and how the media teaches us what to care about…
