Akkad's "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This," written in response to the Gaza humanitarian crisis, won the National Book Award for nonfiction. Veterans flood Democrat’s office with ...

Rabih Alameddine’s “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)” won in fiction, while Omar El Akkad’s reckoning with Gaza took the nonfiction prize. By Elizabeth A. Harris Omar El Akkad ...

NEW YORK (AP) — National Book Awards judges honored authors worldwide on Wednesday night, including Egyptian-Canadian novelist-journalist Omar El Akkad. The writer, who now lives in Oregon, received ...

Canadian writer and journalist Omar El Akkad's memoir and manifesto One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This won the nonfiction category of the U.S.-based National Book Award on Wednesday ...

Omar El Akkad at the Portland Book Festival. (Henry Cromett / Courtesy of the Portland Book Festival) Portland author Omar El Akkad won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for One Day, Everyone ...

Omar El Akkad has won the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction. The National Book Awards, the annual American literary prizes administered by the National Book Foundation, honour the best fiction, ...

This combination of book cover images shows "Things in Nature Merely Grow" by Yiyun Li, left, "A Guardian and a Thief" by Megha Majumdar, center, and "The Antidote" by Karen Russell. (Farrar, Straus ...

The winners of the 76th National Book Awards, held in New York last night, included Rabih Alameddine, Omar El Akkad and Daniel Nayeri. Meanwhile, Booker Prize-winner George Saunders and Roxane Gay ...

In his latest book "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This," El Akkad confronts the silences that enable injustice, urging readers to reckon with complicity, narrative power, and the ...