“Rage wrapped itself around her like a tourniquet, keeping her alive even as it condemned a part of her to atrophy.” — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“This country has a long history of defining its generations by the conflicts that should have killed them.” — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“the misery of war represented the world’s only truly universal language. Its” — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“Your side fought the war, but the war never happened to you. In the Red country the war happened.” — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“I am back home by a riverbank and I am happy and I still lover her. My secret is that I still… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“You got the sense from being around them that no war in the history of South Carolina had ever ended, that they… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“Sarat smiled at the thought. "You couldn't just let us kill ourselves in peace, could you?" "Come now," said Yousef. "Everyone fights… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“It seemed to Karina further proof that wartime was the only time the world became as simple and carnivorously liberating as it… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“It seemed sensible to crave safety, to crave shelter from the bombs and the Birds and the daily depravity of war. But… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“What is the first anesthetic? Wealth. And if I take your wealth? Necessities. And if I demolish your home, burn your fields?… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“forehead understood—was that the misery of war represented the world’s only truly universal language. Its native speakers occupied different ends of the… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“In a 2016 essay, the writer and former soldier Roy Scranton describes watching Star Wars while stationed in Baghdad. He is forced… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“In late February 2024 I talk to a friend of mine, a Palestinian Canadian author whose debut novel, rejected by many publishers,… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“And what she understood-what none of the ones who came to touch Simon’s forehead understood-was that the misery of war represented the… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“One of the most damaging, longest-lasting consequences of the War on Terror years is an utter obliteration of the obvious moral case… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“They didn’t understand, they just didn’t understand. You fight the war with guns, you fight the peace with stories.” — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“On Sarat’s side of the tent there were no posters and few possessions. In a large plastic bowl she kept a potpourri… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“Beyond relief and recognition, there is a more complicated thing--an understanding that the machinery of the West has never had much of a capacity… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“Interviewing one of Uber’s earliest executives, who demonstrated the company’s route-finding algorithms with the unbridled enthusiasm of a small child at Christmas, I couldn’t… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“In a 2016 essay, the writer and former soldier Roy Scranton describes watching Star Wars while stationed in Baghdad. He is forced in that… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“All these old men want it to be like it was when they were young. But it'll never be like that again, and they'll… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“It amazed her, the length at which old men could talk. She wondered if it wasn't the sound of his own voice, rather than… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“You have to grow up, Sarat. You’re not a little girl anymore. Look, just try not to give anybody reason to make fun of… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“Your side fought the war, but the war never happened to you. In the Red country the war happened.” — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“She wondered if all boys were like this, their meanness a self defense.” — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“It's not surprising, I don't think, that in the midst of this indiscriminate killing, many of the Westerners doing the most active work in… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“You got the sense from being around them that no war in the history of South Carolina had ever ended, that they were still… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“Rage wrapped itself around her like a tourniquet, keeping her alive even as it condemned a part of her to atrophy.” — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
