{"id":2595,"date":"2026-08-03T11:28:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/english\/?p=2595"},"modified":"2026-08-03T11:29:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:29:02","slug":"literary-arts-live-september-10-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/english\/2026\/08\/03\/literary-arts-live-september-10-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Arts Live September 10, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/english\/files\/2026\/08\/75-900x473-1.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/english\/files\/2026\/08\/75-900x473-1.webp\" alt=\"Image of Author Omar El Akkad\" class=\"wp-image-2596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/english\/files\/2026\/08\/75-900x473-1.webp 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/english\/files\/2026\/08\/75-900x473-1-400x210.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/english\/files\/2026\/08\/75-900x473-1-768x404.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Omar El Akkad<br>Thursday 09\/10 @7pm<br>Muskie Archives 201<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">National Book Award-winning author and reporter Omar El Akkad was born in Egypt, and was raised in Qatar before moving to Canada with his family. His reporting includes dispatches from the war in Afghanistan, the military trials at Guant\u00e0namo Bay, the Arab Spring revolution in Egypt and the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson, Missouri. El Akkad is a recipient of Canada\u2019s National Newspaper Award for investigative reporting and the Goff Penny Memorial Prize for Young Canadian Journalists. His debut novel, American War (Vintage 2017), won the Oregon Book Award for Fiction and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. His second novel, What Strange Paradise (Knopf 2021), won the Giller Prize for Canadian fiction. El Akkad\u2019s first full-length work of creative nonfiction, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, won the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information, contact Prof. Myronn Hardy at mhardy@bates.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omar El AkkadThursday 09\/10 @7pmMuskie Archives 201 National Book Award-winning author and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"_sidebarChoice":"","footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2598,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}