Poets & Writers Theater
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For this Conduit Club event hosted by Max Porter in London, Egyptian Canadian novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad discusses his debut memoir, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Knopf, 2025), and reflects on the “derangement of language” while reporting the War on Terror and the threats faced by journalists in Gaza today.
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In this PEN America event from their 2022 World Voices Festival, authors Jean Guerrero, Omar El Akkad, Ousman Umar, and Yuri Herrera come together for a conversation about border and migrant narratives, the current global crises of displacement, and how literature tells the stories of those often ignored or hidden.
Tags: Poetry | Fiction | Creative Nonfiction | Translation | PEN America | Jean Guerrero | Omar El Akkad | Ousman Umar | Yuri Herrera | discussion | conversation | panel | 2022
