Writing About Israel And Palestine: Nathan Thrall In Conversation with Professor Saskia Witteborn

Morningside College is proud to host Nathan Thrall, 2024 Pulitzer Prize winning author for General Nonfiction for A Day in the Life of Abed Salama (Metropolitan Books, 2023). 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. Nathan will discuss his book with Professor Saskia Witteborn from the School of Journalism and Communication.

Thrall is also the author of the critically acclaimed essay collection The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine (Metropolitan Books, 2017). His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, London Review of Books, and The New York Review of Books, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. Thrall is the former director of the Arab-Israeli Project at the International Crisis Group, where he covered Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel’s relations with its neighbors from 2010 to 2020.