Omar El Akkad(2017)
JOURNALIST
Omar El Akkad is an award-winning journalist who has covered many of the most important news stories of the last decade. His reporting includes dispatches from the war in Afghanistan, the military trials at Guantànamo Bay, Egypt’s Arab Spring revolution and the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson, Missouri.
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