Co-Sponsored by the San Diego World Affairs Council
Tuesday, October 8th, 2024
7:00pm - 9:00pm
College of Arts & Letters
Lecture Hall 201
5500 Campanile Dr., San Diego, CA 92182
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About the Program
Nathan Thrall, author of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize winning book “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy,” speaks with SDSU Political Science Professor Jonathan Graubart on his book, current developments in Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel, and the challenges of facilitating productive discussion on college campuses.
“A Day in the Life of Abed Salama” offers an indelibly human portrait of the struggle over Israel/Palestine and a new understanding of the tragic history, politics, and reality of one of the most contested places on earth. It's an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that integrates a tangle of lives, loves, enmities within an in-depth analysis of Israel’s longstanding occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip.
Free to the public, and also available via Zoom. Pre-registration required.
About Nathan Thrall
Nathan Thrall received the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for General 
Nonfiction for A Day in the Life of Abed Salama. The book was selected as a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, Time, The Economist and fifteen other publications. Thrall is also the author of the critically acclaimed essay collection The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, London Review of Books, and The New York Review of Books and been translated into more than two dozen languages. Thrall’s writing has been cited in the United Nations Security Council, General Assembly, and Human Rights Council, as well as in reports by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories. He has been described as “one of the best-informed and most trenchant observers of the conflict” (Financial Times), “an American analyst with a severe allergy to conventional wisdom” (Time), and the author of a series of articles “that have defined the new intellectual and political parameters for what is increasingly recognized as Israel-Palestine’s one-state (or post-two-state) reality” (The New York Review of Books). Thrall has received grants and fellowships from the Open Society Foundations, Middlebury College Language Schools, and The Writers’ Institute. His commentary is often featured in print and broadcast media, including the Associated Press, BBC, CNN, Democracy Now!, The Economist, Financial Times, The Guardian, The New York Times, PRI, Reuters, Time, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. He spent a decade at the International Crisis Group, where he was director of the Arab-Israeli Project, and has taught at Bard College. He lives in Jerusalem.
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