What Strange Paradise with Omar El Akkad
Seen Jeem
English - April 11, 2023 05:08 - 35 minutes - 49.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsBooks Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this episode, Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine interviews award-winning journalist and novelist Omar El Akkad about his second novel, What Strange Paradise. The novel follows 9 year old Amir and 15 year old Vänna as they both seek safety. El Akkad speaks on the universal inclination towards friendship, the underlying connection to Peter Pan, and the "dueling fantasies" of not what the world is, but what he believes it to be. Check out Omar's reading at https://seenjeempodcast.org/season-two-episodes/omar
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