Egyptian-Canadian journalist Omar El Akkad joins Antoinette Lattouf on stage at the Queenscliff Literary Festival for a searingly honest and intimate conversation.The author of ‘One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This’, confronts a brutal question: what does it mean to live in the US while its government bankrolls, supports and enables Palestinian ethnic cleansing? He speaks to his sense of personal complicity, silence and the media’s role in manufacturing consent.Yet even as despair presses in, El Akkad refuses to surrender hope. He explains why giving up is a luxury Palestinians cannot afford and neither can those who claim to stand with them.This is a conversation that refuses comfort.Support Ette Media by becoming a subscriber here.Buy our new Etterati and It’s A No From Me T-shirts here. Omar El Akkad's book One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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