CBH Talk | A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

In Nathan Thrall’s A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, the struggle over Israel/Palestine is given a profoundly human face through the heart-wrenching story of a tragic accident that killed Abed Salama’s five-year-old son. Granular in its recitation of the daily injustices that make up the lives of the roughly 3.2 million Palestinians living under occupation in the West Bank, and even-handed in detailing the intractable narratives of the region, the book is a mirror and we are challenged to face it. Join Thrall in a conversation led by Masha Gessen, with special guest Abed Salama, traveling to Brooklyn from the West Bank.

Co-presented by Center for Brooklyn History, BPL Presents, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, The New York Review of Books, and Jewish Currents