One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
- 24 Sep 2026
- 9781837264940
- £10.99
- 208 pp
- 129×198mm
- 13 Feb 2025
- 9781837264254
- £8.79
- 208 pp
- 13 Feb 2025
- 9781837264261
- £22.99
- 5 hrs 20 min
In a few words
The internationally critically acclaimed and bestselling debut non-fiction book from the award-winning novelist and journalist unpicks the hypocrisy and injustices of the West at a volatile and shocking time
In a few words
The internationally critically acclaimed and bestselling debut non-fiction book from the award-winning novelist and journalist unpicks the hypocrisy and injustices of the West at a volatile and shocking time
In a few words
The debut non-fiction book from the award-winning novelist and journalist unpicks the hypocrisy and injustices of the West at a volatile and shocking time
This is an angry book, but its anger is controlled. Forensic and reasoned. Rather than impotently wonder how the situation in Gaza has been allowed to happen, El Akkad sees it as the logical endpoint of the neoliberal pursuit of profit and growth above all else . . . One Day remains much more relevant than [El-Akkad] would want it to be
Chris Power
ObserverIt 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. A unique and urgently needed book
Naomi Klein
This is an angry book, but its anger is controlled. Forensic and reasoned. Rather than impotently wonder how the situation in Gaza has been allowed to happen, El Akkad sees it as the logical endpoint of the neoliberal pursuit of profit and growth above all else . . . One Day remains much more relevant than [El-Akkad] would want it to be
Chris Power
ObserverIt 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. A unique and urgently needed book
Naomi Klein
This is an angry book, but its anger is controlled. Forensic and reasoned. Rather than impotently wonder how the situation in Gaza has been allowed to happen, El Akkad sees it as the logical endpoint of the neoliberal pursuit of profit and growth above all else . . . One Day remains much more relevant than [El-Akkad] would want it to be
Chris Power
ObserverIt 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. A unique and urgently needed book
Naomi Klein
More about
the book
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION
WINNER OF THE PALESTINE BOOK AWARDS
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is an urgent and necessary reckoning about what it means to live in the West today.
This is a book for those that have tired of moral emptiness.
This is a book for everyone who wants something better.
More about
the book
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION
WINNER OF THE PALESTINE BOOK AWARDS
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is an urgent and necessary reckoning about what it means to live in the West today.
This is a book for those that have tired of moral emptiness.
This is a book for everyone who wants something better.
More about
the book
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is an urgent and necessary reckoning about what it means to live in the West today. As an immigrant, Omar El Akkad believed the West offered freedom and justice for all. Over the past twenty years he reported on the various Wars on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests, and more. He won awards for his journalism and his fiction. But now, watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, he comes to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie.
This powerful book is a chronicle of Omar’s painful realisation, a moral grappling with what it means – as a citizen, as a father – to carve out some sense of possibility during these devastating times. This is a book for those that have tired of moral emptiness. This is a book for everyone who wants something better.
One Day is passionate, poetic and sickening. It is full of well-earned rage, frustration with those who need this morality to be spelled out
Dina Nayeri
GuardianUrgent, essential, and profound. A lightning bolt - sets fire to our comforting lies, and illuminates a way forwards
Riz Ahmed
A startling, shocking, beautiful and essential book
Brian Eno
Part elegy, part rallying cry, this magnificent book should, and will, be required reading for future generations trying to reckon with one of humanity’s darkest chapters
TÉa Obreht
One Day is passionate, poetic and sickening. It is full of well-earned rage, frustration with those who need this morality to be spelled out
Dina Nayeri
GuardianUrgent, essential, and profound. A lightning bolt - sets fire to our comforting lies, and illuminates a way forwards
Riz Ahmed
A startling, shocking, beautiful and essential book
Brian Eno
Part elegy, part rallying cry, this magnificent book should, and will, be required reading for future generations trying to reckon with one of humanity’s darkest chapters
TÉa Obreht
One Day is passionate, poetic and sickening. It is full of well-earned rage, frustration with those who need this morality to be spelled out
Dina Nayeri
GuardianUrgent, essential, and profound. A lightning bolt - sets fire to our comforting lies, and illuminates a way forwards
Riz Ahmed
A startling, shocking, beautiful and essential book
Brian Eno
Part elegy, part rallying cry, this magnificent book should, and will, be required reading for future generations trying to reckon with one of humanity’s darkest chapters
TÉa Obreht
Omar El Akkad
View profileOmar El Akkad is an author and journalist. He was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager and now lives in the United States. He is a two-time winner of both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award and the Oregon Book Award. His books have been translated into 13 languages. His debut novel, American War, was named by the BBC as one of 100 novels that shaped our world.
@omarelakkad | omarelakkad.com
Omar El Akkad
View profileOmar El Akkad is an author and journalist. He was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager and now lives in the United States. He is a two-time winner of both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award and the Oregon Book Award. His books have been translated into 13 languages. His debut novel, American War, was named by the BBC as one of 100 novels that shaped our world.
@omarelakkad | omarelakkad.com
Omar El Akkad
View profileOmar El Akkad is an author and journalist. He was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager and now lives in the United States. He is a two-time winner of both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award and the Oregon Book Award. His books have been translated into 13 languages. His debut novel, American War, was named by the BBC as one of 100 novels that shaped our world.
@omarelakkad | omarelakkad.com
