He is also the author of the novel American War, which was defended on Canada Reads 2018 by actor Tahmoh. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Le Monde, Guernica, GQ, and many other newspapers and magazines. Omar El Akkad is a Canadian journalist and author who currently lives in Portland. His work earned Canada’s National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists. (CBC) Like a lot of writers, Omar El Akkad has a habit of archiving bits of conversation for future use. El Akkad has reported from Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, and many other locations around the world. Omar El Akkad is the author of What Strange Paradise. It was listed as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, GQ, NPR and Esquire, and was selected by the BBC as one of 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. It won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, the Oregon Book Award for fiction, and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and has been nominated for more than ten other awards. Though What Strange Paradise celebrates a few radical acts of compassion, it does so only by placing those moments of moral courage against a vast ocean of cruelty.” El Akkad’s debut novel, American War, is an international bestseller and has been translated into 13 languages. His work earned Canada's National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists. He has reported from Afghanistan, Guantnamo Bay, and many other locations around the world. In the Washington Post, Ron Charles calls it, “Riveting…Nothing I’ve read before has given me such a visceral sense of the grisly predicament confronted by millions of people expelled from their homes by conflict and climate change. OMAR EL AKKAD is an author and a journalist.

His second novel, What Strange Paradise, won the Scotiabank Giller prize for 2021. Omar El Akkad is an author and a journalist. Omar El Akkad is an award-winning journalist and author of the critically acclaimed debut, American War, a post-apocalyptic novel set during the second American Civil War in the year 2074.

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