Connections Episode 79
 

A Day in the Life of Palestine

Mouin Rabbani Interviews Nathan Thrall

On Tuesday, 28 November Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani spoke with Nathan Thrall about his powerful and highly-acclaimed new book, A Day in The Life Of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy. This episode of Connections examines the issues it raises about Palestinian life under Israeli rule, and how it helps us understand the current crisis in the Gaza Strip.  

Connections offers timely and informative interviews on current events and broader policy questions, as well as themes relevant to knowledge production. It combines journalism, analysis, and scholarship. 

Guest

Nathan Thrall is the author of The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine. His essays, reviews, and reported features have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, London Review of Books, and the New York Review of Books and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He spent a decade at the International Crisis Group, where he was director of the Arab-Israeli Project, and has taught at Bard College. His most recent book is A Day in The Life Of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy.

Host

Mouin Rabbani has published and commented widely on Palestinian affairs, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the contemporary Middle East. He was previously Senior Analyst Middle East and Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group, and head of political affairs with the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria. He is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine.