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Omar 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. The start of his journalism career coincided with the start of the war on terror, and over the following decade he reported from Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and many other locations around the world. His work earned a National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists. His fiction and non-fiction writing has appeared in The Guardian, Le Monde, Guernica, GQ and many other newspapers and magazines. His debut novel, American War, is an international bestseller and has been translated into thirteen languages. It won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers ...more

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	American War 3.79 avg rating — 35,767 ratings — published 2017 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Strange Paradise 4.08 avg rating — 11,480 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers by Victor LaValle (Editor), John Joseph Adams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Charlie Jane Anders (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 2,466 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison by Sarah Mirk (Goodreads Author), Gerardo Alba (Illustrator), Kasia Babis (Illustrator) 4.53 avg rating — 851 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights by Yasmine Seale (Translator), Paulo Lemos Horta (Editor), Omar El Akkad (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.54 avg rating — 109 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The World As We Knew It: Dispatches From a Changing Climate by Amy Brady (Editor), Tajja Isen (Editor), Lydia Millet (Contributor) 4.18 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“You fight the war with guns, you fight the peace with stories.”
― Omar El Akkad, American War

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“It seemed sensible to crave safety, to crave shelter from the bombs and the Birds and the daily depravity of war. But somewhere deep in her mind an idea had begun to fester-perhaps the longing for safety was itself just another kind of violence-a violence of cowardice, silence, submission. What was safety, anyway, but the sound of a bomb falling on someone else's home?”
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“This country has a long history of defining its generations by the conflicts that should have killed them.”
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April Science Fiction -- The following poll decides which two books will go to the final round of polls for April 2018's Science Fiction BOTM.

Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi

21 votes, 30.0%

Light by M. John Harrison

16 votes, 22.9%

American War by Omar El Akkad

13 votes, 18.6%

Walkaway by Cory Doctorow

12 votes, 17.1%

The Darwin Elevator by Jason M. Hough

8 votes, 11.4%

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