
Omar El Akkad

Omar El Akkad
Omar El Akkad is an author and a journalist. He has reported from Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay and many other locations around the world. His work earned Canada’s National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists. His 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 Association Award, the Oregon Book Award for fiction, and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and has been nominated for more than ten other awards. 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.
Upcoming Events

October 31, 2020
at 4pm
TIFA Event
Humber College Masterclass: Substructure – Plotting, Planning and Organizing a Novel-length Project
Omar El Akkad
October 31, 2020 at 4pm

September 22, 2021
at 7pm
Conversation
Hope in Strange Paradises: Dystopias and their Bright Spots
Omar El Akkad, Margaret Atwood, and Nahlah Ayed
September 22, 2021 at 7pm

October 24, 2021
at 4pm
Presentation
Humber Masterclass: What a Powerful Sentence Looks Like with Omar El Akkad
Omar El Akkad
October 24, 2021 at 4pm

October 26, 2021
at 5:30pm
Conversation
Finding Humanity in Crisis: Rabih Alemeddine & Omar El Akkad
Rabih Alameddine, Omar El Akkad, and Danny Ramadan
October 26, 2021 at 5:30pm

October 26, 2021
at 5:30pm
Conversation
Finding Humanity in Crisis: Rabih Alemeddine & Omar El Akkad
Rabih Alameddine, Omar El Akkad, and Danny Ramadan
October 26, 2021 at 5:30pm

October 24, 2021
at 4pm
Presentation
Humber Masterclass: What a Powerful Sentence Looks Like with Omar El Akkad
Omar El Akkad
October 24, 2021 at 4pm

September 22, 2021
at 7pm
Conversation
Hope in Strange Paradises: Dystopias and their Bright Spots
Omar El Akkad, Margaret Atwood, and Nahlah Ayed
September 22, 2021 at 7pm

October 31, 2020
at 4pm
TIFA Event
Humber College Masterclass: Substructure – Plotting, Planning and Organizing a Novel-length Project
Omar El Akkad
October 31, 2020 at 4pm