Book Review: ‘What a Strange Paradise’ by Omar El Akkad

WHAT WEIRD PARADISEOmar Al-Akkad In his first novelAmerican WarOmar Al-Akkad gave a full account of the violence and misery he witnessed as a correspondent for The Globe and Mail in Canada, covering Afghanistan, Guantanamo and the Arab Spring, with a long-running civil war in the future America upended the world order. In his new novel, …