Journalist and author Nathan Thrall joins us to discuss his book A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy. Nathan explains why he wanted to tell this story in 2023, and how the events of October 7th changed how his book about life for a Palestinian family was received. Nathan also shares what folks can do to impact change in the Israel-Palestine conflict.
The Stacks Book Club selection for December is Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. We will discuss the book on December 27th with Farah Karim-Cooper.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
- A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall
- “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama” (Nathan Thrall, The New York Review of Books)
- October 7 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel
- Beber Vanunu, founder of Adam settlement
- George Floyd
- The Law in These Parts (Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, 2012)
- The Iron Wall by Avi Shlaim
- The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
- Raja Shehadeh
- Ghassan Kanafani
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
- We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I by Raja Shehadeh
- “The Past 50 Years of Israeli Occupation. And the Next.” (Nathan Thrall, The New York Times)
- The Stacks 2023 Book Gift Guide
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