Join us for a public conversation with Omar El Akkad. He is an award winning novelist and journalist. His latest book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, is a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values. His book won the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

OMAR EL AKKAD is an author and journalist. He was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager, and now lives in the United States. He is a two-time winner of both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award and the Oregon Book Award for fiction. His books have been translated into thirteen languages. His debut novel, American War, was named by the BBC as one of 100 novels that shaped our world.

Doors open at 5:45pm

This event is sponsored by the University Honors College, University Library, the Department of English and Creative Writing, the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, the School of Gender, Race, and Nations, the Department of World Language and Literature, and the Department of Film.