Nathan Thrall

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Nathan Thrall is an American author, essayist, and journalist based in Jerusalem. Thrall is the author of A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy, which was named a best book of 2023 by over ten publications, including The New Yorker,^[1] The Economist,^[2] Time,^[3] the Financial Times,^[4] The New Republic,^[5] The Millions,^[6] Mother Jones,^[7] The Forward,^[8] Booklist,^[9] The New Statesman,^[10] and The Irish Times,^[11] and was selected as a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice.^[12] His first book, The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine, was published by Metropolitan/Henry Holt in 2017. He is a contributor to The New York Times Magazine,^[13] the London Review of Books,^[14] and The New York Review of Books.^[15]

Thrall is the former Director of the Arab-Israeli Project at the International Crisis Group, where he covered Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel's relations with its neighbors from 2010 to 2020.^[16] Thrall is a professor at Bard College.^[17]