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Omar El Akkad
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Omar El Akkad was born in Cairo, Egypt, and grew up in Doha, Qatar, before moving to Canada. He worked as a journalist at The Globe and Mail, and his coverage of a 2006 terror plot earned him a National Newspaper Award for Investigative Reporting. His other journalistic work includes dispatches from the NATO-led war in Afghanistan, the military trials at Guantánamo Bay, the Arab Spring revolution in Egypt, and the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson, Missouri. He has also received the Goff Penny Memorial Prize for Young Journalists, as well as three National Magazine Award honourable mentions. He is a graduate...
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Alex Cuadros
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I'm a freelance writer with bylines at The Awl, Bloomberg Businessweek, Mother Jones, The Nation, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Slate, and The Washington Post. My first book, "Brazillionaires," will be out from Random House (via the Spiegel & Grau imprint) in July 2016.
Going farther back: I grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College (class of '05) , I worked for a while in book publishing in New York before moving to Bogotá to become a journalist. In 2010 I moved to São Paulo, where I spent a couple of years...
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