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4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians’ Obsession With Government BureaucracyThe artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...
Back in the year 539 BC the Persian King Cyrus, the “King of Kings” of the first empire of the world in history, boasted: “I am Cyrus, King of the Universe, King of Babylon, King of the Land of Sumer ...
In October 2023, weeks after Israel began bombing Gaza, the writer Omar El Akkad shared a video showing a destroyed city street in Gaza. El Akkad wrote, “One day, when it’s safe, when there ...
Omar El Akkad didn’t think his memoir would ever get published. It’s one of 2025’s buzziest releases
I’m also on BookTok. This week, we speak with Egyptian Canadian journalist-turned-author Omar El Akkad, whose memoir-manifesto “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” came out ...
When author Omar El Akkad posted those words on social media on Oct. 25, 2023, he never imagined they would be seen by more than 10 million people. Now, almost a year and a half later, those words and ...
I’m a big fan of Scaachi. Omar El Akkad will launch One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This on Sunday at 2 p.m. at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location, where he will ...
Offer only available to new and qualified returning subscribers. Cancel any time. Omar El Akkad is disillusioned with the West. Omar El Akkad is disillusioned with the West. For the Portland ...
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