STORYBOUND: Omar El Akkad

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Jude Brewer

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🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Omar El Akkad reads excerpts from "American War" and "What Strange Paradise," backed by an original Storybound remix, and sound design and arrangement by Jude Brewer. Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. He was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager and now lives in the United States. The start of his journalism career coincided with the start of the war on terror, and over the following decade he reported from Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and many other locations around the world. His work earned a National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists. His debut novel, American War, is an international bestseller and has been translated into thirteen languages. It won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award, the Oregon Book Award for fiction, and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. It was listed as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, Washington Post, GQ, NPR, Esquire and was selected by the BBC as one of 100 novels that changed our world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Omar Lackett is an author and journalist.
0:09.0	Born in Egypt, having grown up in Qatar and moved to Canada as a teenager, he now lives in the United States.
0:17.0	His journalism career coincided with the start of the War on Terror, and over the following
0:22.2	decade he reported from Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, and many other locations around the world.
0:28.2	His debut novel American War is an international bestseller and has been translated into
0:32.9	13 languages, listed as one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, Washington Post,
0:39.1	GQ, NPR, Esquire, and was selected by the BBC as one of 100 novels that changed our world.
0:47.6	He will be reading two excerpts from two separate books, American War and What Strange Paradise. He will be accompanied by an original
0:57.8	storybound remix. Hi, my name is Omar Lackhead. I'm an author based in Portland, Oregon,
1:03.4	and this is the prologue to my debut novel, American War. Is crypto perfect?
1:12.1	Nope.
1:12.8	But neither was email when it was invented in 1972.
1:16.1	And yet today, we send 347 billion emails every single day.
1:22.2	Crypto is no different.
1:23.7	It's new.
1:24.3	But like email, it's also revolutionary.
1:27.7	With Crackin, it's easy to start your crypto journey, with 24-7 support when you need it.
1:32.8	Go to crackin.com and see what crypto can be.
1:35.5	Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.
1:37.4	This is a high-risk investment, and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.
1:40.3	Being a marketer is no sweat.
1:42.3	You just have to manage dozens of channels, launch hundreds
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