No Alibis Bookstore and Canongate welcome you to the Mandela Hall for the launch of the paperback edition of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This with author Omar El Akkad, who will be in conversation with Michael Magee. This is a ticketed event, and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to MAP: Medical Aid for Palestinians.

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is an urgent and necessary reckoning about what it means to live in the West today. This is a book for those that have tired of moral emptiness. This is a book for everyone who wants something better.

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. He is a two-time winner of both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award and the Oregon Book Award. His books have been translated into 13 languages.

Michael Magee is a graduate of the creative writing PhD programme at Queen’s University, Belfast. His writing has appeared in Winter Papers, The Stinging Fly, The Lifeboat and The 32: The Anthology of Irish Working-Class Voices. Close to Home is his first novel. It was shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2023 and won the Rooney Prize for Literature 2023.

Doors: 7pm

Starts: 8pm