A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

by Nathan Thrall

🏆 Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction

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“A Day in the Life of Abed Salama tells the story of a terrible school bus crash in 2012 on a highway outside Jerusalem used predominantly by Palestinians, which was badly maintained and heavily congested thanks to Israeli checkpoints. The accident killed six Palestinian children, including Milad, Abed Salama’s five-year-old son. It is a powerful, timely and original work of reportage by the Jerusalem-based American journalist Nathan Thrall.” Read more...

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