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Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreaking day.The Carter Center Human Rights Program and A Cappella Books welcome author Nathan Thrall to the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in honor of his 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy." Thrall will appear in conversation with Susan Marx, Director of The Carter Center Human Rights Program.
Ticket options include:
-$5 General Admission ticket (to use as credit toward the purchase of any books for sale at this event);
-$21 General Admission ticket + Signed paperback edition of "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama";
-$33 General Admission ticket + Signed hardcover edition of "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama"
"Please note: Although bundled tickets are non-refundable, if you cannot attend, your ticket still entitles you to a signed copy of the book. A Cappella Books will hold your book for one month from the event date. You may pick it up in-store or call us to request shipping.
About the Book
Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for a school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the way, his bus collides with a semitrailer. His father, Abed, gets word of the crash and rushes to the site. The scene is chaos—the children have been taken to different hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank; some are missing, others cannot be identified. Abed sets off on an odyssey to learn Milad’s fate. It is every parent’s worst nightmare, but for Abed it is compounded by the maze of physical, emotional, and bureaucratic obstacles he must navigate because he is Palestinian. He is on the wrong side of the separation wall, holds the wrong ID to pass the military checkpoints, and has the wrong papers to enter the city of Jerusalem. Abed’s quest to find Milad is interwoven with the stories of a cast of Jewish and Palestinian characters whose lives and histories unexpectedly converge.
In "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama," Nathan Thrall—hailed for his “severe allergy to conventional wisdom” (Time)—offers an indelibly human portrait of the struggle over Israel/Palestine and a new understanding of the tragic history and reality of one of the most contested places on earth.
About the Author
Nathan Thrall received the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama." He is also the author of "The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine." His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Guardian, London Review of Books, and the New York Review of Books and been translated into more than twenty 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. He lives in Jerusalem.
About the Conversation Partner
Susan Marx became the director of the Carter Center Human Rights Program in May 2022. Before this role, she served as the project director for the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative, where she led efforts to combat human trafficking in the Southern Africa Development Community and implemented women’s economic empowerment and gender-based violence reduction initiatives in Eswatini. Her extensive experience also includes a decade with The Asia Foundation, where she managed programs in Timor-Leste focused on gender-based violence, police reform, and sustainable economic development, after initially joining the foundation as a program manager for women’s rights in Afghanistan.
Marx is an expert in human rights, rule of law, access to justice, and combating human trafficking, with significant strategic leadership experience in program design and implementation. Her career has spanned various challenging environments, including Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the United States, with a focus on conflict, post-conflict, and least-developed regions. Marx holds advanced degrees in international human rights law from Oxford University, African studies from UCLA, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Southern California. She also completed the Yale School of Management Women’s Leadership Course.
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208 Haralson Ave NE, Atlanta, GA, United States, Georgia 30307
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