Nathan Thrall Lays Bare Everyday Reality of Life Under Occupation

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🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Nathan Thrall won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction for “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama.” It tells the story of a school bus crash in 2012 outside of Jerusalem; the bus was carrying a group of Palestinian kindergartners when it collided with a truck, killing 6 children and their teacher. Thrall follows the accident’s aftermath and one parent’s frantic search for his son, exposing the bureaucracy and brutality of life under occupation. We talk to Thrall about what we can still learn from the crash and why he says it embodies the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Guests: Nathan Thrall, journalist and author, "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy" - former director of the Israel/Palestine Project, International Crisis Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:12.6	Coming up on forum, Nathan Thralls, A Day in the Life of Abbott Salama, tells the story of a school bus crash in 2012 on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The bus was carrying a group of Palestinian
1:17.4	kindergartners when it collided with a truck and killed six children and their teacher.
1:22.6	Thraw follows Salama's frantic search to find out what happened to his son, exposing the bureaucratic hurdles and physical barriers he confronts in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
1:33.5	Thrall's book won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.
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