Ariel Sabar is an award-win­ning jour­nal­ist whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Harper’s Mag­a­zine, The Wash­ing­ton Post, Smith­son­ian Mag­a­zine, and many oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. He is the author of My Father’s Par­adise: A Son’s Search for His Jew­ish Past in Kur­dish Iraq, which won the Nation­al Book Crit­ics Cir­cle Award for Autobiography.