American War | Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Omar El Akkad [Culturally Determined]
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Channel: Nonzero · 2017 · News & Politics
00:10 Omar’s new dystopian novel, American War 03:18 A future where fossil fuels lead to civil war 07:45 How the novel's narrator shows "the violence of malleable history” 11:17 How the Bouazizi Empire became the global superpower 14:48 Omar: In fiction, you can craft the contours of your world 18:50 Why the book might, or might not, spawn a TV series Aryeh Cohen-Wade (Joking on the Square, @AryehCW) and Omar El Akkad (American War: A Novel) Join the conversation on Bloggingheads.tv: http://bloggingheads.tv/videos/48071 Recorded on October 27, 2017 Subscribe to the Bloggingheads.tv YouTube channel: https://goo.gl/ccLFDY Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bloggingheads Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bloggingheads/
