<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for El Akkad, Omar, 1982-]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for El Akkad, Omar, 1982-]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/more/rss/search?query=El%20Akkad%2C%20Omar%2C%201982-&amp;searchType=author&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:28:06 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[A People's Future of the United States]]></title><description><![CDATA["For many Americans, imagining a bright future has always been an act of resistance. A People's Future of the United States presents twenty never-before-published stories by a diverse group of writers, featuring voices both new and well-established. These stories imagine their characters fighting everything from government surveillance, to corporate cities, to climate change disasters, to nuclear wars. But fear not: A People's Future also invites readers into visionary futures in which the country is shaped by justice, equity, and joy. Edited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams, this collection features a glittering landscape of moving, visionary stories written from the perspective of people of color, indigenous writers, women, queer & trans people, Muslims and other people whose lives are often at risk" -- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2437692</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2437692</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2437692164</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Speculative Fiction From 25 Extraordinary Writers</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525508809/MC.GIF&amp;client=indianheadfls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The World as We Knew It]]></title><description><![CDATA[Including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Omar El Akkad and others, this collection from literary writers around the world offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives.]]></description><link>https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2556839</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2556839</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2556839164</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Dispatches From A Changing Climate</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781646220304/MC.GIF&amp;client=indianheadfls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guantanamo Voices]]></title><description><![CDATA[In January 2002, the United States sent a group of Muslim men they suspected of terrorism to a prison in Guantanamo Bay. They were the first of roughly 780 prisoners who would be held there--and 40 inmates still remain. Eighteen years later, very few of them have been ever charged with a crime. In Guantanamo Voices, journalist Sarah Mirk and her team of diverse, talented graphic novel artists tell the stories of ten people whose lives have been shaped and affected by the prison, including former prisoners, lawyers, social workers, and service members. This collection of illustrated interviews explores the history of Guantanamo and the world post-9/11, presenting this complicated partisan issue through a new lens.]]></description><link>https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2531690</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2531690</guid><category><![CDATA[GRAPHIC_NOVEL]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2531690164</comments><format>GRAPHIC_NOVEL</format><subtitle>True Accounts From the World&apos;s Most Infamous Prison</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781419746901/MC.GIF&amp;client=indianheadfls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This]]></title><description><![CDATA["From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an empire that doesn't consider you fully human. On October 25th, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: "One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this." This tweet was viewed more than ten million times. One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This chronicles the deep fracture that has occurred for Black, brown, Indigenous Americans, as well as the upcoming generation, many of whom had clung to a thread of faith in Western ideals, in the idea that their countries, or the countries of their adoption, actually attempted to live up to the values they espouse"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2671844</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2671844</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[El Akkad, Omar]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2671844164</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593804148/MC.GIF&amp;client=indianheadfls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[American War]]></title><description><![CDATA["An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle--a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place. But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be. Eventually Sarat is befriended by a mysterious functionary, under whose influence she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. The decisions that she makes will have tremendous consequences not just for Sarat but for her family and her country, rippling through generations of strangers and kin alike" -- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2353639</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2353639</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[El Akkad, Omar]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2353639164</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780451493583/MC.GIF&amp;client=indianheadfls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Strange Paradise]]></title><description><![CDATA["More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another over-filled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives in their homelands. And only one has made the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who has the good fortune to fall into the hands not of the officials but of Vänna: a teenage girl, native to the island, who lives inside her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain. And though she and the boy are complete strangers, though they don't speak a common language, she determines to do whatever it takes to save him. In alternating chapters, we learn the story of the boy's life and of how he came to be on the boat; and we follow the girl and boy as they make their way toward a vision of safety. But as the novel unfurls we begin to understand that this is not merely the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world, it is the story of our collective moment in this time: of empathy and indifference, of hope and despair--and of the way each of those things can blind us to reality, or guide us to a better one" --Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2529098</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2529098</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[El Akkad, Omar]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2529098164</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525657903/MC.GIF&amp;client=indianheadfls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[American War]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074.  But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky.  When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place.  But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be.  Eventually Sarat is befriended by a mysterious functionary, under whose influence she is turned into a deadly instrument of war.  The decisions that she makes will have tremendous consequences not just for Sarat but for her family and her country, rippling through generations of strangers and kin alike.]]></description><link>https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2382692</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://more.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S164C2382692</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[El Akkad, Omar]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://more.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2382692164</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781524779795/MC.GIF&amp;client=indianheadfls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>