{"id":7600,"date":"2025-05-06T10:44:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T22:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/?p=7600"},"modified":"2026-01-15T13:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T00:30:06","slug":"should-be-obligatory-reading-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/should-be-obligatory-reading-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Should be Obligatory Reading EVERYWHERE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newarab.com\/features\/unpacking-one-day-everyone-will-have-always-been-against\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Omar El Akkad&#8217;s confrontation of the West\u2019s hypocrisy over the continuing genocide in GAZA.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newarab.com\/features\/unpacking-one-day-everyone-will-have-always-been-against\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a book with an undercurrent of anger through it, but it\u2019s not a book that shouts.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, it\u2019s a quietly convincing indictment of the West\u2019s institutions and of its moral failings, and a thorough laying out of an argument about breaking away from the ideas and ideals we\u2019ve held ourselves to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although, of course, it criticises right-wing institutions, one of the book\u2019s biggest targets for critique is the Western liberal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newarab.com\/features\/unpacking-one-day-everyone-will-have-always-been-against\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LINK to Interview\u00a0 HERE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sarahshaffi.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/sarahshaffi.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\/<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/71oab94Kh4L._AC_UF10001000_QL80_.webp\"><img data-dominant-color=\"e33e35\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #e33e35;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7601 not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/71oab94Kh4L._AC_UF10001000_QL80_.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/71oab94Kh4L._AC_UF10001000_QL80_.webp 663w, https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/71oab94Kh4L._AC_UF10001000_QL80_-199x300.webp 199w, https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/71oab94Kh4L._AC_UF10001000_QL80_-139x210.webp 139w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omar El Akkad&#8217;s confrontation of the West\u2019s hypocrisy over the continuing genocide in GAZA.\u00a0 This is a book with an undercurrent of anger through it, but it\u2019s not a book that shouts. Instead, it\u2019s a quietly convincing indictment of the West\u2019s institutions and of its moral failings, and a thorough laying out of an argument [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[57,90],"class_list":["post-7600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-humanity","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7600"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8018,"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600\/revisions\/8018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}