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 ...

One of two Portland writers who were up for a prestigious literary prize has secured a new trophy. At the National Book ...

With One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This—whose title paraphrases a tweet its author posted just weeks after ...

The Western world is supposed to stand for values like freedom, justice and human rights, a commitment to meet wrongdoing ...

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

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — National Book Awards judges honored authors worldwide on Wednesday night, from Lebanese novelist Rabih ...