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In his fact-based book A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, Nathan Thrall gives the story of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a human face. He describes the effects of Israeli settlement policy on everyday life in the West Bank in a ruthless, moving and politically astute way, and was awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in the Nonfiction category for this.

KEY VISUAL Autorin Deborah Feldman & Pulitzer-Preis-Gewinner Nathan Thrall: Ein Tag im Leben von Abed Salama

In conversation with writer Deborah Feldman, he will talk this evening about the old and new face of the conflict, combining real-life stories from the region with political and historical expertise.

Nathan Thrall is from California and now lives in Jerusalem. He is the author of The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine. His essays, reviews and reports have appeared in the New York Times Magazine and the Guardian, among others, and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. For a decade he worked in the International Crisis Group as head of the Arab-Israeli Project and taught at Bard College.

Deborah Feldman is a German-American author who was born in New York in 1986 and grew up with her grandparents, Holocaust survivors from Hungary, in the Hasidic, strictly religious Satmar community in Williamsburg.

Her native language is Yiddish. While she attended a religious girls' school to prepare for her life as a wife and mother, she secretly studied literature at Sarah Lawrence College in New York and eventually broke away from the community to move to Berlin with her son.

Her autobiographical story "Unorthodox" suddenly became a New York Times bestseller, reached millions of copies and was translated into 25 languages. Filmed by Maria Schrader in 2020, Deborah Feldman's story soon became an international Netflix success and won an Emmy.

Deborah Feldman regularly writes guest articles for ZEIT, Süddeutsche, FAZ, Der Spiegel and others. Her book “Jewish Fetish” was published in 2023.

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