Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, Nathan Thrall’s A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy, has been called searing, essential, magnificent, vital, and heartbreaking, but perhaps it is best described by David Schulman in the New York Review of Books who said, “I know of no other writing on Israel and Palestine that reaches this depth of perception and understanding.” It offers a new perspective of the struggle over Israel/Palestine as told through the aftermath of a tragic crash involving five-year-old Milad Salama and his father, Abed. Thrall, in conversation with Carol Off, speaks to his journalistic paragon and what it tells us given the horrors unfolding in Gaza. 

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Nathan Thrall’s appearance presented thanks to the generous support of Yasmeen and Andrew Strang.

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Carol Off

CAROL OFF spent almost sixteen years co-hosting the multi-award-winning CBC radio program, As It Happens. Before that, she covered news and current affairs in Canada and around the world. Her first bestselling book, The Lion, The Fox and the Eagle: A Story of Generals and Justice in Yugoslavia and Rwanda, was published in 2000. Since then, she’s written three more award-winning works of narrative non-fiction, including All We Leave Behind: A Reporter’s Journey into the Lives of Others, winner of the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction.

Nathan Thrall

NATHAN THRALL received the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for A Day in the Life of Abed Salama. 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 and more. He lives in Jerusalem.

Presented thanks to the generous support of Yasmeen and Andrew Strang.