One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This | 
What are you willing to give up to alleviate someone else‘s suffering? […] the prevailing answer echoing from the mouths of so many of one‘s own neighbours is: Nothing at all.
How does one finish the sentence: “It is unfortunate that tens of thousands of children are dead, but…”
The literary critic Northrop Frye once said all art is metaphor & a metaphor is the grammatical definition of insanity. What art does is meet us at the site of our insanity, our derangement, the plainly irrational mechanics of what it means to be human.
pickI don‘t write in books- ever. However as I listened to this audio. I kept longing for a physical copy that I could underline in. I thought this was incredible.
I don't buy many hardcovers, but I had a gift card at my local indie store so I nabbed this.
pickI have so much I want to say about this, but I‘m alternating between rage and grief, so I‘ll settle for this. Part memoir, part history, part journalistic reporting on current events, this is a concise damnation of Western imperialism, particularly the pervasive Islamophobia and unwavering support for genocide. If it doesn‘t make you mad, you aren‘t paying attention. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸
This is our now at your local bookstore, it should be required reading for all Westerners. El Akkad talks about not just Palestine but about many other countries and how the west puts money over people.
Essential reading.
pick4.5⭐
Essential reading. This is going to upset a lot of people. They need to be upset.
El Akkad New book is part memoir, part political discourse, part Palestinian war criticism. Knowing where he came from is critical of understanding his views on modern day American politics and the war on Palestine.
Release date Feb 25th. I have preordered my copy, I needed to reread the published copy and make a bunch of notes.
