Omar El Akkad
“When Home Isn’t a Place: Writing in an Unanchored Age”
Please join us on Thursday November 3, 2022 at 7:00 pm in 108 Bessey Hall on the Michigan State University campus for the Global Studies 2022 Signature Lecture with Omar El Akkad.
El Akkad is an award-winning novelist and journalist. In 2021, he received Canada’s most prestigious literary award, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, for What Strange Paradise. His first novel American War (2017) was also widely acclaimed. What Strange Paradise is the story of a Syrian boy whose family flees the war, seeking refuge first in Egypt and then in Europe. The boy’s perilous journey represents the plight of many Arab, Asian, and African refugees.
SPONSORED BY The Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities Program with the generous support of the College of Arts and Letters.
Co-sponsored by the Department of English, the Muslim Studies Program, the Creative Writing Program, the Chicano Latino Studies Program, and LiLaC. Omar El Akkad’s visit is organized in partnership with Embassy Cultural House and WordsFest (London, Canada).
