When Home Isn't a Place: Omar El Akkad In Conversation with Salah Hassan

Omar El Akkad is an award-winning novelist and journalist. In 2021, he received Canada’s most prestigious literary award, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, for What Strange Paradise. His first novel American War (2017), was also widely acclaimed. What Strange Paradise is the story of a Syrian boy whose family flees the war, seeking refugee first in Egypt than in Europe. The boy’s perilous journey across the Mediterranean, represents the plight of many Arab, Asian, and African refugees.

Omar will join Salah to talk about his journalism and fiction.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Museum London, 421 Ridout Street North, London, Canada