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This is the Bookerview Podcast for the New York Times.

It's July 30th.

I'm Candle Opal.

Omar El-Aqad joins us now from just outside Portland, Oregon.

His latest novel is called What Strange Paradise.

Omar, thanks for being here.

Thank you so much for having me.

So you are in Portland now.

I believe that the United States is your fourth country of residence.

Stop me if I'm missing something, but you've were born in Egypt, lived in Qatar and Canada

and now in the United States.

That's right.

Yeah, I've been a guest on someone else's land since I was five years old.

How has that influenced you as a writer?

I mean, it seems pretty clearly evident in both this novel, What Strange Paradise and

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