{"product_id":"one-day-everyone-will-have-always-been-against-this","title":"One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eby Omar El Akkad\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWINNER, National Book Award, Non-Fiction, United States, 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A howl from the heart of our age' Richard Flanagan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A unique and urgently needed book.' Naomi Klein\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A powerful, uncomfortable but thought-provoking read.' Dua Lipa\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Clear, elegant and devastatingly truthful...Read this shatteringly honest book.' Max Porter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad, an urgent and necessary reckoning with what it means to live in the West today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs an immigrant, Omar El Akkad believed the West would be a place of freedom and justice for all. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the various Wars on Terror, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests, and more, and watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, he has come to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOne Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e This is a chronicle of that painful realisation, a moral grappling with what it means-as a citizen of the US, as a father-to carve out some sense of possibility during these devastating times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is El Akkad's nonfiction debut, his most raw and vulnerable work to date. It's a heartfelt breakup letter with the West, a brilliant articulation of the same breakup we are watching all over the world, in family rooms, on university campuses, on city streets. This book is for everyone who wants something better than what the West has served up. This is the book for our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePRAISE:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e' A bracing memoir and manifesto.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Full of exasperated wisdom and virtue. Its honesty is invigorating.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eVulture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Certain to become one of the essential texts of this terrible era.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLitHub\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is one of the most urgent and important nonfiction books of our time: exquisitely written, devastating, and incandescent with feeling and moral clarity about what it means to live in a world where unimaginable atrocities unfold in plain sight.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAntoinette Lattouf\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Terrifying, shameful, and necessary testimony.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eLesley Williams,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Rearranged my soul.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e' Yves Rees,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I can't think of a more important piece of writing to read right now... I found hope here, and help, to face what the world is now, all that it isn't anymore. Please read this. I promise you won't regret it.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eTommy Orange, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWandering Stars\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A unique and urgently needed book.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNaomi Klein\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A startling, shocking, beautiful and essential book.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBrian Eno\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'If you read one thing this year, read this.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAmplify Bookstore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Part elegy, part rallying cry, this magnificent book should, and will, be required reading for future generations trying to reckon with one of humanity's darkest chapters.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eTea Obreht, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Morningside\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I urge you to read Omar El Akkad's astonishing book.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eDavid Olusoga,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBlack and British\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'El Akkad's writing is mesmerising: it juggles the lyrical with the political, the comic with the analytical, and never once drops a ball. His book is at once observation, admonition and tender autobiography.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eGood Reading\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Palestine Center for Peace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43137826095202,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1059\/0506\/files\/61jcRFzpZ-L._SY466.jpg?v=1784689125","url":"https:\/\/palestinecenterforpeace.com.au\/products\/one-day-everyone-will-have-always-been-against-this","provider":"Palestine Center for Peace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}