Omar El Akkad | Writing Climate 2025

About this episode

Omar El Akkad discusses his experiences and insights on writing about climate issues in a conversation with Aida Alami.

On Thursday, March 27th, the Lannan Center welcomed award-winning author and journalist Omar El Akkad for a conversation with New York Times contributor Aida Alami as part of the center's annual symposium, this year entitled "Writing Climate". 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 followin...

People in this episode

Guest: Omar El Akkad

Topics covered

• climate
• journalism
• literature

Keywords

• symposium
• writing
• climate change

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Writing Climate 2025, Writing Climate

Places: Egypt, Qatar, Canada, the United States

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