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Omar El Akkad writes scathing takedown of 'the privilege of looking away' in book of essays around war in Gaza

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Omar El Akkad's book of essays One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, is a scathing indictment of how he sees the Western world.

The book was inspired by a tweet he tweeted in October 2023 , three weeks after the bombardment of Gaza .

The writer had been consumed with what he was seeing in Gaza and what he saw as the abject failure of Western governments and media for not reporting and denouncing the actions of Israeli forces.

Omar El Akkad's new book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is about “a deep sense of personal uncertainty” The writer grew up believing in the Western world as an emigrant.

He says his ability to make peace with that sense of the disjointed had to do with that underlying belief.

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