Nathan Thrall explains what led him to 'A Day in the Life of Abed Salama,' which expands out from a bus accident to plumb injustice and dysfunction in Israel.
Sadly but perhaps fittingly, Nathan Thrall’s career as a journalist and the head of an NGO focused on Israeli-Palestinian relations began with a tragedy.
Thrall focuses on Salama, who is searching for his 5-year-old son, Milad; Salama cannot easily drive to the different hospitals where children were taken because of Israel’s travel restrictions for Palestinians beyond certain boundaries. The book weaves in stories of other families with children on the bus as well as others within these segregated communities, includingand those who helped draw those boundaries.
Documents about the massacre at Deir Yassin and other possible atrocities remain classified, apparently to cover up their “unpleasant” contents.“I immediately was hooked, and when I came back I got a master’s in political science and then moved here and started working as a journalist,” he says — adding, however, that initially he was still “totally oblivious to Israeli-Palestinian history.”
But even as he was writing that article, Thrall planned to expand it into a book, which would allow him to refract that bigger picture through the people involved in the accident and their families’ histories. “My interest in the actual human lives ended up surpassing that initial instinct to use it as a vehicle to explain,” he says. “Telling these stories is essential for people to feel a human connection to what’s going on here.
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