When Home Isn't a Place: Omar El Akkad In Conversation with Salah Hassan
November 5, 2022 at 11:00am
Embassy Cultural House (ECH) and the Words Festival are pleased to present a visit with award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad, in conversation with ECH Contributor and Michigan State professor Salah Hassan!
When Home Isn't a Place: Omar El Akkad In Conversation with Salah Hassan
Saturday, 5 November, 11:00AM
Museum London
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Omar El Akkad is an award-winning novelist and journalist. In 2021, he received Canada’s most prestigious literary award, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, for What Strange Paradise. His first novel American War (2017), was also widely acclaimed. What Strange Paradise is the story of a Syrian boy whose family flees the war, seeking refugee first in Egypt than in Europe. The boy’s perilous journey across the Mediterranean, represents the plight of many Arab, Asian, and African refugees.
Omar will join Salah to talk about his journalism and fiction.
