Omar El Akkad

Omar El Akkad
Born 1982 (age 34–35)
Cairo, Egypt
Occupation Journalist, author

Omar El Akkad (born 1982) is a Canadian Egyptian novelist and journalist.

Biography

Omar El Akkad was born in Cairo, Egypt, and grew up in Doha, Qatar.[1] At 16 years old he moved to Canada, completing high school in Montreal and college at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He has a computer science degree.[2] For ten years he was a staff reporter for The Globe and Mail, where he covered the War in Afghanistan, military trials at Guantanamo Bay and the Arab Spring in Egypt.[1] He was most recently a correspondent for the western United States, where he covered Black Lives Matter.[3]

His first novel, American War, was published in 2017.[4][5]

He lives with his wife and daughter in Portland, Oregon.[6]

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 "Omar El Akkad | Penguin Random House". www.penguinrandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2017-07-14.
  2. ↑ "Omar El Akkad - Interview". BookPage.com. Retrieved 2017-07-14.
  3. ↑ "A Conversation with Omar El Akkad, Author, American War - Unbound Worlds". Unbound Worlds. 2017-05-19. Retrieved 2017-07-14.
  4. ↑ Kakutani, Michiko. "A Haunting Debut Looks Ahead to a Second American Civil War". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2017-04-18.
  5. ↑ Garcia-Navarro, Lulu. "'American War' Explores The Universality Of Revenge". NPR.org. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
  6. ↑ Alter, Alexandra (2017-03-30). "Boom Times for the New Dystopians". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
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