Nathan Thrall

Nathan Thrall is an American writer, journalist, and analyst on the Middle East. He is currently a Jerusalem-based Senior Analyst with the Middle East & North Africa Program of the International Crisis Group covering Gaza, Israel, Jordan, and the West Bank. His writing has appeared in English in The New York Times, The New Republic, GQ, Slate, and The New York Review of Books, and in Arabic in Al-Hayat, Asharq al-Awsat, and Al-Quds al-Arabi. A contributing editor at Tablet magazine and a former member of the editorial staff of The New York Review of Books, he has appeared on the BBC, NPR, and CNN.

Contents

• Background and Education
• Writings
• References

Background and Education

Thrall received a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara's College of Creative Studies and an M.A. in politics from Columbia University. He lives in Jerusalem.

Writings

The only language they understand: forcing compromise in Israel and Palestine. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt & Company 2017. ISBN 9781627797092 (hardcover), 9781627797108 (electronic book). 

The First 50 Years of Israeli Occupation. And the Next. The New York Times June 2, 2017

Hamas’s Chances, London Review of Books, Vol. 36 No 16·21 August 2014 pp. 10-12 (Online 1 Aug 2014)

How the West Chose War in Gaza, The New York Times 17 Jul 2014

What Future for Israel?, The New York Review of Books, 22 Jul 2013

Palestine's Changing Politics, Foreign Policy, 29 May 2013

Hamas muss sich zwischen Muslimbrüdern und Teheran entscheiden, Die Zeit, 19 Sep 2012

Hurting Moderates, Helping Militants, The New York Times, 4 May 2011