![]() ![]() ![]() El Akkad’s book is not based on his reporting, at least not directly. There are drones, and suicide bombers, and teeming refugee tent cities full of desperate people grieving for lost loved ones, and hoping for a path to peace. You can see a lot of the themes from that reporting on display in his first book. He covered the Arab Spring in Egypt, military trials at Guantanamo Bay, refugee camps in Afghanistan, and the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson, Missouri. Omar El Akkad is a former foreign correspondent for Toronto’s Globe and Mail newspaper. Note: The following transcript was created by a computer and edited by a volunteer.ĭave Miller : This is Think Out Loud on OPB, I’m Dave Miller. Local author Omar El Akkad recently won the Oregon Book Award for his latest novel “What Strange Paradise.” Today we listen back to a conversation with El Akkad from 2017 about his first novel “American War.” The book imagines a near future in which the country is fighting a second civil war. ![]()
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