ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS by Omar El Akkad (Audiobook)(Nonfiction) m4b

ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS by Omar El Akkad (Audiobook)(Nonfiction)

Author: Omar El Akkad

Full title: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Length: approximately 5 hours 20–25 minutes

Release date: February 20, 2025

Genre/Categories: Nonfiction; Political essay; Current affairs; Anti‑war; Middle East/Palestine


Expanding from a viral tweet written during Israel’s 2023–24 assault on Gaza, El Akkad delivers a blistering moral reckoning with Western liberal democracies’ complicity in what he explicitly names as genocide. Blending memoir, reportage, and polemic, he draws on years as a journalist in Afghanistan, Guantánamo, and Ferguson, along with his life as an Arab immigrant in North America, to argue that Western power is built on the dehumanization and disposability of certain peoples, and that many who now stay silent will later claim they were “always against” these crimes. Read in his own measured but furious voice, the audiobook challenges listeners to decide which side of history they occupy when atrocities are unfolding in real time.