Nathan Thrall

Nathan Thrall is a journalist and has published articles and reports in The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian and The New York Review of Books, which have been translated into more than a dozen languages. In his latest book, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama (published in Spanish by Anagrama and in Catalan by Persicopi, 2024), Pulitzer Prize 2024 for general nonfiction, the author analyzes the daily life in the occupied territories of Palestine and its consequences. The work has also been recognized as the best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time and The Economist. Thrall, who has also taught at Bard College and authored the essay The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine (Metropolitan Books, 2017), has served for a decade at the International Crisis Group as chief analyst of the Middle East and North Africa Program. Thrall's writings have also been cited at the United Nations Security Council, General Assembly, and Human Rights Council, as well as in reports by Amnesty International and Humans Rights Watch. Originally from California, he currently lives in Jerusalem.