One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad

Descriere & specificații

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. n n 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. n n 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. n This book is a reckoning with what it means to live in the West, and what it means to live in a world run by a small group of countries--America, the UK, France, and Germany. It will be The Fire Next Time for a generation that understands we're undergoing a shift in the so-called rules-based order, a generation that understands the West can no longer be trusted to police and guide the world, or its own cities and campuses. It draws on intimate details of Omar's own story as an emigrant who grew up believing in the Western project, who was catapulted into journalism by the rupture of 9/11. n This book is

Produse similare

Omar El AkkadOne Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad

138,88 lei173,60 lei-20%

Salman RushdieKnife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder - Salman Rushdie

115,20 lei144,00 lei-20%

Viktor E. FranklMan's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl

51,78 lei64,73 lei-20%

Mark BraudeThe Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII - Mark Braude

161,20 lei201,50 lei-20%

Allen IversonMisunderstood: A Memoir - Allen Iverson

148,80 lei186,00 lei-20%

Kim HanaTwo Women Living Together - Kim Hana

161,28 lei201,60 lei-20%

Tessa HullsFeeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir - Tessa Hulls

133,92 lei167,40 lei-20%

Tom ShillueMean Dads for a Better America: The Generous Rewards of an Old-Fashioned Childhood - Tom Shillue

79,31 lei99,14 lei-20%

Ketanji Brown JacksonLovely One: A Memoir - Ketanji Brown Jackson

173,60 lei217,00 lei-20%

Untitled Memoir: A Memoir -

161,20 lei201,50 lei-20%

Paul MyersJohn Candy: A Life in Comedy - Paul Myers

148,75 lei185,94 lei-20%

Kevin FederlineYou Thought You Knew - Kevin Federline

138,83 lei173,54 lei-20%