Nathan Thrall

Nathan Thrall is an American journalist and author based in Jerusalem. He is a former director of the Arab-Israeli Project at the International Crisis Group and has spent years reporting on and analysing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the London Review of Books, the Guardian and other publications. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2024. The book tells the story of a Palestinian father searching for his son after a school bus crash in the occupied West Bank, using this devastating personal story to illuminate the daily reality of life under occupation and the systems of separation, bureaucracy and indifference that define the Palestinian experience. Available as both a book and an audiobook, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama offers essential listening and reading — a profoundly human story that makes the political personal and the personal universal.