09/25/2024
A Conversation with Nathan Thrall, San Diego State University, Arts and Letters 201, October 8, 7-8:30
Nathan Thrall will discuss “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy” with SDSU Political Science Professor Jonathan Graubart. The book won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Beyond the events depicted in the book, the conversation will cover current developments in Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel and the challenges of facilitating productive discussion on college campuses.
Nathan Thrall 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.
Jonathan Graubart is a professor and chair of the SDSU Political Science Department. He is the author of Jewish Self-Determination beyond Zionism: Lessons from Hannah Arendt and other Pariahs (Temple University Press 2023). His article “It is Deadly and Oppressive but Is It One State? Assessing the New One-State Reality Paradigm” is forthcoming in Palestine/Israel Review.
