Think & Drink with Emily Harris and Omar El Akkad by Oregon Humanities published on 2019-03-25T17:20:09Z Emily Harris interviews Omar El Akkad, a journalist and author who has covered the war in Afghanistan, military trials in Guantanamo Bay, the Arab Spring revolution in Egypt, and the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson, Missouri. In 2018, El Akkad’s debut novel, American War, was awarded the Oregon Book Award for fiction. Genre Learning
