Nathan Thrall is an American writer, journalist, and analyst on the Middle East.^[1] 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.^[2][3] 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.^[3] A contributing editor at Tablet magazine^[3] and a former member of the editorial staff of The New York Review of Books,^[3] he has appeared on the BBC, NPR, and CNN.^[3]

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.^[4]

• 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). ((cite book)): templatestyles stripmarker in |publisher= at position 49 (help)

• 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

• Nathan Thrall's Personal website
• International Crisis Group