TomorrowTalks with Nathan Thrall: ‘A Day in the Life of Abed Salama’

"Arizona State University welcomes Jerusalem-based journalist Nathan Thrall as a guest in its TomorrowTalks series. Thrall will discuss his nonfiction work ""A Day in the Life of Abed Salama"" —winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize—in an online event on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024 at 12 p.m. Arizona / MST (12 p.m. PDT / 1 p.m. MDT / 2 p.m. CDT / 3 p.m. EDT). The conversation will be facilitated by ASU political scientist Victor Peskin, an associate professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies and senior research fellow at the University of California, Berkley's Human Rights Center. The event is free of charge and open to the public; please register to attend. About the book: In ""A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy,"" Nathan Thrall — hailed for his “severe allergy to conventional wisdom” (Time) — offers an indelibly human portrait of the struggle over Israel/Palestine and a new understanding of the tragic history and reality of one of the most contested places on earth. Immersive and gripping, it's an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreaking day. About Nathan Thrall: Nathan Thrall received the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for ""A Day in the Life of Abed Salama."" He is also the author of ""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. 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. About the series: TomorrowTalks place thought leaders of today in conversation with the changemakers of tomorrow: our students. Each distinguished speaker explains how they use writing to address our most pressing challenges. TomorrowTalks are a student-engagement initiative led by the Division of Humanities in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at ASU and hosted by ASU's Department of English in partnership with Macmillan Publishers."