Tweets
- Tweets, current page.
- Tweets & replies
- Media
You blocked @omarelakkad
Are you sure you want to view these Tweets? Viewing Tweets won't unblock @omarelakkad
-
Pinned Tweet
This country is a man trying to describe a burning building without using the word fire. A People's Future of the United States February 5, 2019 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/561572/a-peoples-future-of-the-united-states-by-edited-by-victor-lavalle-and-john-joseph-adams/9780525508809/ …
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Omar El Akkad Retweeted
Please GOP Senators, think about how you’ll be written about in the history books you’ll burn
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Esi is a genius and this was a really great night.https://twitter.com/sfu_library/status/1223310779731955712 …
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Omar El Akkad Retweeted
Presidents are allowed to do whatever they want for any reason they want. Except black Presidents. Who aren't even allowed to lawfully appoint Supreme Court justices during their term.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
And all of this because some publisher decided this book had to be a phenomenon at any cost. I hope these folks are aware of how much long-term damage they’ve done, and I’m sorry I helped them do it.
Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
As a result, they’ve wiped any trace of the original review from their web site. A somewhat forgettable book that in any other year would have come and gone is now the subject of attention that isn’t being given to countless authors who deserve it more.
Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
When I found out, I rewrote the review. The folks at BookPage had a meeting of their own, and decided they too had been taken for a ride. But they wouldn’t run my new review, because it violates their no-negative-review policy.
Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
BookPage has a no-negative-review policy. So I found the one thing the book did well – it’s fast-paced – and wrote about that. A few weeks later, I learned the marketing copy was all bullshit. There is no personal connection. The author’s husband immigrated here from… Ireland.
Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Through very careful language, the marketing copy for American Dirt implied that the author not only had a personal connection to the material, but that her husband himself had an even more direct connection, being an illegal immigrant himself.
Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
A couple of months ago, BookPage asked me to review American Dirt. The advance copy arrived with a letter from the publisher, which in hindsight is honestly one of the more disingenuous things I’ve ever read.
Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
I don’t know if the writing world needs another American Dirt thread, but I got conned by the folks behind this book’s marketing and I’m mad about it, so for whatever it’s worth, here’s some details about how this thing was presented to the world…
Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Omar El Akkad Retweeted
If you want today in a tweet: The American president, now facing an impeachment trial, unveiled a proposal from his unqualified son-in-law to let Israel's caretaker government, led by an indicted prime minister, start annexing large tracts of occupied land.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Anna's book launches in the U.S. in March. Please pick it up if you can. It's one of the most honest, well-researched and bravest things I've ever read. https://www.powells.com/book/-9781615194926 …https://twitter.com/stevegoldbloom/status/1220394990066515972 …
4:31Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Omar El Akkad Retweeted
This year's One Book One SFU with
#EsiEdugyan and@omarelakkad is expected to sell out, so definitely show up early with your tickets to score yourself a great seat!
Learn more: http://at.sfu.ca/sNHiDa pic.twitter.com/KIYchKMUJD
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Omar El Akkad Retweeted
I love these tweets. I love it when the headline basically reads "worst person on earth openly advocates against making world they fucked up a better place"https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1220004261809086466 …
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Omar El Akkad Retweeted
Great idea. There was a respected Washington Post columnist who i would love to have investigate the matter but you killed himhttps://twitter.com/SaudiEmbassyUSA/status/1219792870389035008 …
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
I honestly can't tell if these guys picked the name of their group knowing it's Arabic translation or not.https://twitter.com/JoshKovensky/status/1218263051205586944 …
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Omar El Akkad Retweeted
** Extra tickets released ** There’s still time to get a free ticket for One Book One SFU on Jan. 30th! Join us to see
#EsiEdugyan in conversation with@omarelakkad.

#OBOSFU Register at: https://www.lib.sfu.ca/onebookonesfu@SFU_W@pfbvanpic.twitter.com/yIE86n1bRJ
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Omar El Akkad Retweeted
It's weird that candidates have to answer "how will you pay for healthcare for everyone" right after a 30-minute segment of "which endless war will you start" without any question "...and how will you pay for all that war?"
Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you." An evergreen passage about the creep of fascism.https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8052924-but-the-one-great-shocking-occasion-when-tens-or-hundreds …
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Omar El Akkad Retweeted
Shoutout to the registered voter who thought Mexico was Iran, your vote counts as much as minepic.twitter.com/mbd3Vwe9Ou
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.
