Omar El Akkad

Omar El Akkad nyaéta jurnalis jeung penulis Mesir-Kanada-Amérika. Anjeunna kungsi jadi réporter jang The Globe and Mail salila 10 taun, nu mana anjeunna ngawartakeun perang di Afghanistan, Teluk Guantanamo, jeung Arab Spring di Mesir.

Di taun 2025, buku anjeunna nu dirilis di taun nu sarua, One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This meunang pangajén National Book Award for Nonfiction.

Cutatan

• To be accused of speaking too loudly about one injustice but not others by someone who doesn’t care about any of them is to be told, simply, to keep quiet.
  • Pikeun dituduh nyarios tarik teuing ngeunaan hiji kateuadilan tapi henteu nu lianna ku hiji jalma anu henteu paduli ngeunaan hiji-hiji acan téh sami jeung siga dititah, sederhanana mah, pikeun angger cicing.
• It is a hallmark of failing societies, I’ve learned, this requirement that one always be in possession of a valid reason to exist.
  • Éta téh tanda tina masarakat anu gagal, sim kuring diajar, pasaratan ieu téh, éta téh teu weléh jadi pikamilik tina alasan valid pikeun hirup.
• The moral component of history, the most necessary component, is simply a single question, asked over and over again: When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power? What makes moments such as this one so dangerous, so clarifying, is that one way or another everyone is forced to answer.
  • Komponen moral tina sajarah, komponen paling penting, téh sederhanana mah hiji patayaan, ditanyakeun tuluy tuluyan: Nanging éta aya hartina, saha anu mihak ka kaadilan sarta saha anu mihak ka kakuasaan? Naon anu ngajadikeun mangsa siga kieu téh bahaya pisan, jelas pisan, nyaéta hiji jalan atawa nu séjénna sakabéh jalma téh dipaksa pikeun ngajawab.
• How empty does your message have to be for a deranged right wing to even have a chance of winning? Of all the epitaphs that may one day be written on the gravestone of Western liberalism, the most damning is this: Faced off against a nihilistic, endlessly cruel manifestation of conservatism, and somehow managed to make it close.
  • Sakumaha kudu kosong pesen anjeun téh pikeun saurang sayap kanan sasar nepi ka miboga kasempetan pikeun meunang? Di antara sakabéh tulisan dina batu nisan anu engké bakal dituliskeun dina batu nisan liberalisme Barat, anu paling ngutuk téh ieu: Nyinghareupan langsung perwujudan konservatisme anu nihilistik jeung telenges, sarta henteu apal kumaha bisa ngadeukeutan kameunangan.
• It seemed sensible to crave safety, to crave shelter from the bombs and the Birds and the daily depravity of war. But somewhere deep in her mind an idea had begun to fester-perhaps the longing for safety was itself just another kind of violence-a violence of cowardice, silence, submission. What was safety, anyway, but the sound of a bomb falling on someone else's home?
  • Katingalina téh masuk akal pikeun miharep kaamanan, pikeun miharep panyalindungan tina bom sareng kapal perang sarta kabejadan perang sapopoé. Tapi hiji tempat dina pikiranna aya hiji ideu anu mulai kabentuk-meureun kasonoan pikeun kaamanan téh ngan bentuk lain tina katelengesan-hiji katelengesan tina kateuneung, kabisuan, katundukan. Naon ogé kaamanan téh, nanging sora bom murag dina imah hiji jalma nu lian?