Distinguished Speaker Series: Omar El Akkad [] San Miguel Literary Sala
Event Category: All Events, Community Events, and Literary Events
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Omar El Akkad, 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner, in Conversation with Hal Wake | FEB 13 | 6PM CST
USD$10.00 – USD$50.00
The Giller spotlight shines on Omar El Akkad, author of the 2021 Scotiabank Giller winner What Strange Paradise. A journalist/novelist with an extraordinary ability to distill complex political events into hauntingly, personal fiction, Omar has worked in the trenches of the world’s hotspots, covering the war in Afghanistan, military trials at Guantanamo Bay, Egypt’s Arab Spring, and most recently, Black Lives Matter in the US. Don’t miss this conversation with one of the most talented, audacious, prescient writers of our time.
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