| LC control no. | n 2017001892 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3605.L12 PS8609.L25 CaOONL |
| Personal name heading | El Akkad, Omar, 1982- |
| Variant(s) | Akkad, Omar El, 1982- |
| Associated country | Canada |
| Located | Dawḥah (Qatar) Canada Portland (Or.) |
| Birth date | 1982-01-06 |
| Place of birth | Cairo (Egypt) |
| Profession or occupation | Journalists Novelists |
| Found in | American war, 2017: ECIP t.p. (Omar El Akkad) Amazon.com website, viewed Jan. 12, 2017: (OMAR EL AKKAD was born in Cairo, Egypt and grew up in Doha, Qatar until he moved to Canada with his family. He is an award-winning journalist and author who has traveled around the world to cover many of the most important news stories of the last decade. His reporting includes dispatches from the NATO-led war in Afghanistan, the military trials at Guantànamo Bay, the Arab Spring revolution in Egypt and the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson, Missouri. He is a recipient of Canada's National Newspaper Award for investigative reporting and the Goff Penny Memorial Prize for Young Canadian Journalists, as well as three National Magazine Award honorable mentions. He lives in Portland, Oregon) Email from publisher (Penguin Random House), Jan. 12, 2017: (Omar El Akkad, b. Jan. 6, 1982; debut novel is American war) LAC internal file, May 24, 2019 (access point: El Akkad, Omar; variant: Akkad, Omar El; Canadian) |
| National bib agency no. | 1026B2812E |
| Quality code | nlc |
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