Sydney Writers' Festival @ Parkes Library: Omar El Akkad
Event description
Omar El Akkad believed the West would be a place of freedom and justice for all. Join the award-winning novelist and journalist as he draws on a career covering the Wars on Terror, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests and Gaza to expose the broken promises of the West. Amid immense destruction One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This lays bare a society where the “least worst thing” absolves the soul.
In this powerful reckoning Omar asks, as both an Egyptian-born US citizen and a father, how do we carve out a sense of possibility in these devastating times? With host Sisonke Msimang.
NB: This is a free, virtual event at Parkes Shire Library and Cultural Centre. A minimum of six attendees is required for event to run.
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