Award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad joins Max Porter for a searing indictment of western hypocrisy and a moral grappling with what it means to live at the heart of an empire.

As an immigrant to the United States, Egyptian born journalist and novelist Omar El Akkad believed the West would be a place of freedom and justice for all. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the various Wars on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests and more, and watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, he has come to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie.

He joins us live in conversation with novelist Max Porter to explore that painful realisation, and consider what it means – as a citizen of the US, as a father – to carve out some sense of possibility during these devastating times.

Join Omar for a searing critique of Western governments and media, and hear his hope and desire for a better world.

Praise for Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This:

Each generation looks back in judgement, and sometimes in horror, at the moral blind spots of earlier generations and previous ages. To get a glimpse of how we in the early 21st century might one day be judged for our passivity and hypocrisy, I urge you to read Omar El Akkad’s astonishing book. – David Olusoga

It is difficult to understand the nature of a true rupture while it is still tearing through the fabric of our world. Yet that is precisely what Omar El Akkad has accomplished, putting broken heart and shredded illusions into words with tremendous insight, skill and courage. – Naomi Klein

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