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Byline: Omar El Akkad Omar El Akkad is the author of the forthcoming book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. Early in the new year, the Presidential [...]

There is immense cruelty on the way, and given how quickly the CEO class has positioned itself in total fealty to the Trump administration, there will be little institutional resistance, Omar El Akkad is the author of the forthcoming bookOne Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. Early in the new year, the Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients are [...]

Byline: Omar El Akkad In Gabriel Bump's novel 'The New Naturals,' a disillusioned couple start a utopian commune in an underground bunker. THE NEW NATURALS, by Gabriel Bump Given the [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD; Special to The Globe and Mail Victory City SALMAN RUSHDIE RANDOM HOUSE , 352 PAGES Very early on in Victory City - Salman Rushdie's grand and [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD; Special to The Globe and Mail A Private Spy John la Carré VIKING , 7 5 2 PAGES 'Death - looming or simply out there - [...]

Byline: Omar El Akkad BROTHERLESS NIGHT, by V. V. Ganeshananthan The word 'terrorist,' or some variation thereof, shows up six times on the opening page of V.V. Ganeshananthan's 'Brotherless Night.' [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD PORTLAND, ORE. -- Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of What Strange Paradise One of the very few ideological ailments that seems to afflict both mainstream Democrats and [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD Author whose latest novel, What Strange Paradise, won the Giller Prize Over the years, like a jazz musician forced against his will to play the same [...]

Byline: Omar El Akkad TERMINATION SHOCKBy Neal Stephenson We open on the queen of the Netherlands crash-landing a private jet on a runway in Waco, Texas, immediately precipitating a massacre [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD Lead Author whose latest novel is What Strange Paradise What remains of the Oak Park Motel resembles in a vague, unsettling way a school-fair diorama. The [...]

Byline: Omar El Akkad Lead Omar El Akkad is the author of American War. He lives in Portland, Ore. It is difficult to watch a day such as Jan. 6, [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD Lead Thomas Wilner has spent the past 17 years of his life trying to shut down the prison camps and military commissions at Guantanamo Bay. A [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD Lead Author of American War, and a resident of Portland, Ore. In the early hours of Wednesday, the President of the United States stepped before a [...]

Byline: Omar El Akkad Lead Omar El Akkad is the author of American War. He lives in Portland, Ore. At the corner of Salmon Street and 3rd Avenue, which this [...]

Byline: OMAREL AKKAD Lead Portland, Ore.-based author of American War There's an argument to be made that no work of literary fiction has ever launched to the kind of simultaneous [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD Lead Portland, Ore.-based writer and author of American War Just for a moment, ignore the huckster in the centre of the circus. Look, instead, at the [...]

Byline: MATT HARTLEY; TECHNOLOGY REPORTER; With reports from Omar El Akkad in Ottawa and Matthew Trevisan in Toronto Maggie Fox doesn't care what 'Suzie from Moncton' had for breakfast. Neither [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY LAS VEGAS -- TECHNOLOGY REPORTER For a glimpse into the future of the world's biggest electronics show, look to a Canadian researcher who's building a [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW 1.Mobile-device accessories, especially for the iPhone 5 For all the talk about CES as a stage for major new product launches, the show [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TERMS-OF-SERVICE AGREEMENTS TECHNOLOGY REPORTER When the creators of 500px, a popular Toronto-based photo-sharing service, came to draw up the terms-of-service agreement for the site, they wanted [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD DIPLOMACY In four years as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has collected more air miles than many people rack up in a lifetime - thanks to [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD RETAIL Brace yourself for the quintessential calculus of post-Christmas consumerism: Are hour-long lines and potential shoving matches a fair trade for discount prices? The madness of [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD NEXT / The people, places, things and ideas that will shape 2013 / TECHNOLOGY Call it a TV guide on steroids. The NextGuide is an iPad [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD SOCIAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGY REPORTER A hugely popular mobile app has been thrust into the centre of one of the biggest battlegrounds in online commerce: A company's [...]

Byline: Omar El Akkad 12/12 CANADA COMPETES Even before you read it, you know that little sticky note on your front door means you've failed. That hilarious blender you bought [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD EGYPT CAIRO -- The real estate on her body is up for debate - perhaps somewhere along the upper back, or near the collarbone - but [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD MIDDLE EAST CAIRO -- Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has given his office broad, unchallenged powers over policy-making, sending protesters back to Tahrir Square and risking a [...]

Byline: PATRICK MARTIN, OMAR EL AKKAD, CAMPBELL CLARK; With reports from Associated Press and Reuters MIDEAST GAZA CITY, CAIRO and OTTAWA -- The promise of a midnight truce in Gaza [...]

Byline: Omar El Akkad BUSINESS TICKER / VIDEO A Vancouver start-up based on the audacious strategy of launching high-definition video cameras into space has captured the attention of one of [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Walt Disney Co. has purchased perhaps the biggest science fiction movie franchise of all time, adding to a stable that includes Spider-Man, Mickey [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD and SUSAN KRASHINSKY MARKETING Six months ago, Facebook Inc. seemed to have no mobile strategy to speak of, and no way to justify its lofty valuation [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD SOCIAL NETWORKS TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Facebook Inc. is starting to figure out mobile. The one-billion-strong social network posted its third-quarter financial results on Tuesday, slightly beating analyst [...]

Byline: SHANE DINGMAN, OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY SAN JOSE, CALIF. and TORONTO -- Acknowledging there is no one-size-fits-all solution in the mobile industry, Apple Inc. is wading into a product [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER With Apple Inc. dropping down a weight class and Microsoft Corp. entering the ring for the first time, this week marks the closest [...]

Byline: JOHN BARBER, OMAR EL AKKAD FOLIO: NEWSWEEK In an admission that news is not enough, and a week is much too long, one of the most well-known print magazines [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD FOLIO: U.S. DEBATE Wednesday night's U.S. presidential debate, the first of three before election day, quickly generated more activity on the microblogging site Twitter than any [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD ANALYSIS / RESEARCH IN MOTION TECHNOLOGY REPORTER While a short-term stock price surge is nice, what Research In Motion Ltd. investors should really be cheering this [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY / EARNINGS TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Research In Motion Ltd. is learning to be hungry again. Once the dominant force in the smartphone industry, the struggling BlackBerry [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD and IAIN MARLOW THE IPHONE 5* The company that invented the original iPhone no longer exists. Apple Inc. unveiled the latest edition of the world's best [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD MEDIA TECHNOLOGY REPORTER Just a year ago, Netflix Inc. was riding high with a stock price hovering around the $300 (U.S.) mark. Today, Netflix shares trade [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD MOBILE DEVICES TECHNOLOGY REPORTER The biggest names in the world of technology are about to find out exactly what it takes to convince consumers to give [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY REPORTER For the first time in years, BlackBerry developers have reason to be optimistic. Research In Motion Ltd. gave a group of software developers [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD and IAIN MARLOW TECHNOLOGY Apple Inc. has gone where no company has ever been before, nearing the $625-billion (U.S.) mark in stock market value amid a [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD The Lookahead: Aug. 13 - 17 / NOTE FROM THE TECH BEAT Battling hundreds of competitors and facing some deeply skeptical investors, the world's most popular [...]