American Quote by Omar El Akkad

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“You fight the war with guns, you fight the peace with stories.”

— Omar El Akkad

“Your side fought the war, but the war never happened to you. In the Red country the war happened.”

— Omar El Akkad

“She wondered if all boys were like this, their meanness a self defense.”

— Omar El Akkad

“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

“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

“Rage wrapped itself around her like a tourniquet, keeping her alive even as it condemned a part of her to atrophy.”

— Omar El Akkad