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From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values
On October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” This tweet has been viewed more than ten million times.
As an immigrant who came to the West, El Akkad believed that it promised freedom. A place of justice for all. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the War on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests, and more, and watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, El Akkad has come to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie. That there will always be entire groups of human beings it has never intended to treat as fully human—not just Arabs or Muslims or immigrants but whoever falls outside the boundaries of privilege.
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is a chronicle of that painful realization, a moral grappling with what it means, as a citizen of the United States, as a father, to carve out some sense of possibility in a time of carnage.
This is El Akkad’s nonfiction debut, his most raw and vulnerable work to date, a heartsick breakup letter with the West. It is a brilliant articulation of the same breakup we are watching all over the United States, in family rooms, on college campuses, on city streets; the consequences of this rupture are just beginning. This book is for all the people who want something better than what the West has served up. This is the book for our time.
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“Sharp, incisive and necessary, this hands-on and brutally honest assessment of the corrosion of Western values provides added validation to what so many are facing across the United States. With sweeping prose and dynamic reportage, Omar El Akkad delivers the mirror we all need. This is a powerful work that one day, everyone will have always been in favor of.”
— Barnes&Noble.com
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“[A] bracing memoir and manifesto.”
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“One Day is powerful, angry, but always compelling in its moral logic, and damn hard to put down…a must-read.”
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“[A] fierce, anguished indictment of Western hypocritical indifference towards Israel's destruction of Gaza...[A] terrifying, shameful, and necessary testimony.”
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“[El Akkad’s] prose is clear sighted and unflinching; his narration is fiery and direct…There is incredible power in hearing this book read aloud.”
— Kirkus Audiobook Reviews
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A #1 Amazon Bestseller
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A New York Times Bestseller
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Winner of the 2025 National Book Award
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
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Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
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Winner of the Palestine Book Award
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About Omar El Akkad
Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. His 2025 nonfiction book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, won several major awards and was a New York Times bestseller. He is also a two-time winner of both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award and the Oregon Book Award for fiction. His debut novel, American War, was named by the BBC as one of one hundred novels that shaped our world. His books have been translated into thirteen languages. He was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager, and now lives in the United States.