![]() ![]() What Strange Paradise won the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize. He is a recipient of Canada's National Newspaper Award for Investigations and the Goff Penny Memorial Prize for Young Canadian Journalists, as well as three National Magazine Award honourable mentions. His reporting includes dispatches from the NATO-led war in Afghanistan, the military trials at Guantànamo Bay, the Arab Spring revolution in Egypt and the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson, Mo. Omar El Akkad has created a novel that isn’t afraid to be a pleasurable yarn as it delves into the hidden currents of American culture and extrapolates from them to envision a deeply tragic potential future. He is an award-winning journalist and author who has traveled around the world to cover many of the most important news stories of the last decade. El Akkad was born in Cairo, Egypt and grew up in Doha, Qatar before moving to Canada with his family. He is also the author of the novel American War, which was defended on Canada Reads 2018 by actor Tahmoh Penikett. Omar El Akkad is a Canadian journalist and author who currently lives in Portland, Ore. His second novel, What Strange Paradise, won the Scotiabank Giller prize for 2021. ![]() Tareq Hadhad is defending What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad on Canada Reads 2022.Ĭanada Reads will take place March 28-31. The debates will be hosted by Ali Hassan and will be broadcast on CBC Radio One, CBC TV, CBC Gem and on CBC Books. Omar El Akkad is an author and a journalist. ![]()
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