Omar El Akkad
@omarelakkad
I write for a living. My literary agent is Nicole Aragi of @AragiAuthors. I don't really post anything on social media anymore, here or elsewhere.
I don’t know how to do anything but write. In November of 2023, I started writing about what it means to live under an ordering of the world that abides slaughter, and whether any ordering that does ever stood for anything at all. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777485/o…
I feel utterly sick. There are no words.
"When you enter Gaza, you are God": Inside the minds of IDF soldiers who commit war crimes / Prof. Yoel Elizur haaretz.com/opinion/2024-1…
Biden’s unwavering sponsorship of the most documented genocide in history—one which has killed 20,000 children and created the largest contingent of child amputees in modern history—is what dishonors the office. The pardon is just an undignified coda to a reprehensible tenure.
Biden’s Pardon for His Son Dishonors the Office nytimes.com/2024/12/02/opi…
Actually, I think we have seen it before when a right-wing Germany combines with a right-wing Italy to unite Europe.
Love that the German government has collapsed! What a beautiful Christmas gift. Rooting for the AFD to take that country over and rule as heavy-handed as they legally can. A right-wing Germany, combined with a right-wing Italy and the other nations in Europe who have taken a…
Biden's legacy:
We don’t say it enough —Joe Biden has been an extraordinary president.
Look man I get the tendency to skepticism bred by the internet but these guys are fucking live overthrowing one of the worst totalitarian police states to ever be conceived by humanity and that’s a fantastic fucking thing regardless of what comes next so it’s okay to be happy
I’ve seen people on this site justifying shooting Palestinian babies in the head and heart for over a year now
Guys, defending or justifying shooting a man in the street is a path to hell. Don’t do it.
Just a reminder that if you buy Refaat's new book If I Must Die through @openpoetrybooks all proceeds will be donated to the Tents, Cash Aid and Medical campaign run by @sameerproject to support displaced Palestinians in the south of Gz: …n-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/wo…
We all can do this for Refaat and his new book. Come on!!! actionnetwork.org/forms/refaat-a…
Palestinians are so thoroughly dehumanized that *this* is the only content warning on this story
CNN tried to do a sympathy piece on IDF soldiers and then like halfway through the article you find out this guy was a D9 bulldozer driver who regularly drove over people while they were alive.
the columnists who lied, said “israel would never bomb a hospital” who retweeted genocidal apologia and victim blamed — every single one of them has a job, and they all continue to write as though this never happened. and their main concern is still “these protests are scary”
A year ago today, doctors stood among the bodies of victims of the Al-Ahli blast, warning that if Israeli impunity continued, more attacks on Gaza’s hospitals would follow. Among them was surgeon Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a firsthand witness to the blast, whose testimony was…
“Ask any Arab what the most painful realization of the last year has been and it is this: that we have discovered the extent of our dehumanization to such a degree that it’s impossible to function in the world in the same way” by @warghetti themarkaz.org/a-year-of-war-…
Have you gotten your tickets yet? We will be hosting award winning author and journalist @TaNehisiCoates6 on October 22! Coates will be joined in conversation with @omarelakkad to discuss his new book The Message. Tickets are available now. Link in our bio! 🎟️
Something rather permanent in me has been stuck exactly here. I understand that the world appeared to keep moving, but I'm not sure that I did.
The Israeli gov't knowingly starved Palestinian civilians, USA gov't knew they were doing it, the Biden administration deliberately covered up this fact & lied about it. This is as big a scandal as imaginable. Yet it is likely to receive little traction in the mainstream media.
Leaked docs: While Gaza starved, USAID and State's refugees bureau came to a legally explosive conclusion — Israel had deliberately prevented food & medicine from getting in But Blinken told congress the exact opposite, so the arms could keep flowing. propublica.org/article/gaza-p…
“‘The fact of the matter is,’ he said, ‘that kid up at Columbia, whatever dumb shit they’re saying, whatever slogan I would not say that they would use, they are more morally correct than some motherfuckers that have won Pulitzer Prizes…’” nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Watching his gentleness with this beautiful baby reminds me of the tragedy that has been the pathologising of Arab men. They made you believe we were inhumane, so you would be silent in our murders. And they succeeded.
Leaked docs: While Gaza starved, USAID and State's refugees bureau came to a legally explosive conclusion — Israel had deliberately prevented food & medicine from getting in But Blinken told congress the exact opposite, so the arms could keep flowing. propublica.org/article/gaza-p…
Mossad are just so good at this stuff. It’s like WWII-era MI5 on steroids. Intelligence wins wars.
Mossad are just so good at this stuff. It’s like WWII-era MI5 on steroids. Intelligence wins wars.
“What I am experiencing now, what I think many of us are experiencing, is a kind of distributed mourning,” writes Christina Sharpe. Read her essay, “The Shapes of Grief,” in our fall issue. yalereview.org/article/christ…
“What I am experiencing now, what I think many of us are experiencing, is a kind of distributed mourning,” writes Christina Sharpe. Read her essay, “The Shapes of Grief,” in our fall issue. yalereview.org/article/christ…
Just learned that Rio Tinto, one of the world's largest mining conglomerates, starts quarterly earnings calls with a land acknowledgement
Winter Online Workshop applications are open now! This award is open to any author identifying as Palestinian. No application fee is required, and the deadline to apply is September 23rd. Apply here: tinhouse.com/workshop/winte…