TY - BOOK AU - El Akkad,Omar TI - One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This SN - 9780593804148 AV - PS3605.L12 Z46 2025 U1 - 813/.6 23/eng/20241031 PY - 0000///February 252025/// CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - El Akkad, Omar, KW - Arab American authors KW - Biography KW - Journalists KW - United States KW - Israel-Hamas War, 2023- KW - Muslims KW - Social conditions KW - Arabs N1 - new book 2025 spring; Departure -- Witness -- Values -- Language -- Resistance -- Craft -- Lesser evils -- Fear -- Leavetaking -- Arrival N2 - "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"-- ER -