Jor­dan Sala­ma is a writer whose work appears in Nation­al Geo­graph­ic, New York Mag­a­zine, The New York Times, and oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. An Amer­i­can writer of Argen­tine, Syr­i­an, and Iraqi Jew­ish descent, he is most recent­ly the author of Stranger in the Desert: A Fam­i­ly Sto­ry.