Name: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Start: 2025-10-22
End: 2025-10-22
Location: The Wheeler Centre

Omar El Akkad discusses his searing new work, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This – a powerful reckoning with Western hypocrisy.

Sparked by his viral tweet during the bombardment of Gaza – viewed over 10 million times – Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This lays bare the fractures he has seen in the West’s empty promises of freedom and justice.

In this timely session, the Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist reflects on how events like the Black Lives Matter protests, the escalating climate crisis and the violence in the Middle East have reshaped his understanding of migration, power and inequality and forced him to confront what it means to live in a West that has betrayed its fundamental values.

Praised by Richard Flanagan as ‘a howl from the heart of our age’, El Akkad’s book explores exactly how the West has failed and offers hope for a way forward. With Tasneem Chopra.

Event and Ticketing Details

Dates & Times

Wednesday 22 October

6.30 - 7.30pm

Tickets

$35.50

Full

$25.50

Concession

$25.50

Under 30

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Location

The Wheeler Centre

176 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne Victoria 3000

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Accessibility

Accessible toilets available

Assistive Listening

Auslan interpreting available by-request

Companion tickets available

Registered Assistance Animals welcome

Wheelchair accessible

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Additional Notes

Omar El Akkad will be signing books after the event.

The bookseller for this event is Amplify Bookstore.

Featuring

Omar El Akkad

Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. His debut novel, American War, is an international bestseller and has been translated into thirteen languages. It was listed as one of the best books of the year by The New York ...

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Tasneem Chopra

A Cross-cultural Consultant, Tasneem addresses issues of equity and belonging through an intersectional lens in leadership of government, corporate, arts, academic and NGO sectors, within Australia and overseas. She assists ...