The Journalism Program is excited to announce that it will be co-sponsoring a talk with journalist Nathan Thrall, author of A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Jerusalem Tragedy on Thursday, April 18 at 6:00 in the Byrum Welcome Center at Wake Forest University (1580 Wake Forest Rd. Winston-Salem, NC 27109).
Named one of the top books of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, The Economist, and The New Republic, A Day in the Life is a micro-study of a single day in East Jerusalem, as Abed Salama is forced to negotiate both the complex entanglements of the Israeli Occupied West Bank and the various Palestinian political factions that vie for control over the region, all in an effort to locate his son who is the victim of a tragic bus accident. Thrall’s book has been widely reviewed, including in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, and the Washington Post.
