In A Day In The Life of Abed Salama, author Nathan Thrall revisits the journey and the vivid people, both Palestinian and Jewish, Salama encountered. Thrall and Salama speak with NPR's Leila Fadel ...

If it's hard to make people care about someone they've never met, it's even harder when that someone is behind a wall. But in A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, the journalist Nathan Thrall makes a ...

Sadly but perhaps fittingly, Nathan Thrall’s career as a journalist and the head of an NGO focused on Israeli-Palestinian relations began with a tragedy. Growing up in the Bay Area, he had ...

“This awful event allowed me, in telling the story, to describe the entire elaborate system of segregation and subjugation and apartheid in which all of these people live,” says ...

As he traces Salama’s frantic and often thwarted search for news of his son, Thrall maps the landscape of this border region between Israel and Palestine and the people caught there — from ...

The main thing I want is for people to feel viscerally what it is ... Since Oct. 7, Nathan Thrall's book events on Abed Salama's tragedy were canceled in major U.S. and U.K. cities.

“It’s very helpful to be reminded and remind others that on the other side of these conversations are people and communities and homelands that you’re talking about,” Spahn said. Thrall ...

Today, with people still struggling to understand the contours of this deeply complicated conflict, the book seems essential. An expanded version of Thrall’s widely praised 2021 New York Review ...

Unlike many of the political and security analysts that I and other correspondents constantly quoted, Thrall’s sharp insights were always deeply rooted in on-the-ground, people-centered ...