The Book Club

Nathan Thrall: A Day In The Life of Abed Salama

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In This Episode

My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Nathan Thrall, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book A Day In The Life of Abed Salama – which uses the story of a terrible bus crash in the West Bank to describe in ground-up detail the day-to-day lives of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. Speaking to me from Jerusalem, Nathan tells me why he believes it’s right to call Israel an ‘apartheid state’, how the bureaucracy of the Occupied Territories made the fatal crash ‘an accident that wasn’t an accident’; and what he thinks needs to change to bring hope of an end to the conflict. 

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