Matti Friedman is a journalist in Jerusalem, a columnist for the Free Press, and the award-winning author of four works of nonfiction: The Aleppo Codex, Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story, Spies of No Country, and most recently, Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Matti’s journalism has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Tablet, Smithsonian, and elsewhere.