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This week, Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. Upon winning the award, El Akkad said, “It’s very difficult to think in celebratory terms about a book that was written in response to a genocide. It’s difficult to think in celebratory terms when I have spent two years seeing what shrapnel does to a child’s body. It’s difficult to think in celebratory terms when I know my tax money is supporting this, and that many of my elected representatives happily support it, and it is difficult to think in celebratory terms when I have been watching people snatched off the street by agents of the state for daring to suggest that Palestinians might be human beings.”
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