Akkad's powerful memoir won the U.S.-based award. The annual literary award program celebrates and honours authors for books ...

Based on a viral tweet the author sent early into the Israel-Gaza war, the book maligns Western liberalism for, in El Akkad’s ...

Omar El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” criticizes Western indifference to civilian suffering ...

Portland author Omar El Akkad won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for "One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against ...

Rabih Alameddine’s “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)” won in fiction, while Omar El Akkad’s ...

At the National Book Awards, Omar El Akkad was announced as the nonfiction winner for his work “One Day, Everyone Will Have ...

He was named the winner for his nonfiction debut, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, at a ceremony in New ...

Omar El Akkad took home the 76th National Book Award for nonfiction Wednesday night for his book "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This." ...

The winners of the 76th National Book Awards, held in New York last night, included Rabih Alameddine, Omar El Akkad and ...

In his 2017 debut novel, “American War,” Omar El Akkad spotlighted Middle East humanitarian crises by reimagining them on U.S. soil. Perhaps, the novel implied, Americans might pay refugees and ...