Mat­ti Friedman’s work as a reporter has tak­en him from Lebanon to Moroc­co, Cairo, Moscow and Wash­ing­ton, D.C., and to con­flicts in Israel and the Cau­ca­sus. He grew up in Toron­to and lives in Jerusalem.The Alep­po Codex, his first book, was pub­lished in May 2012 by Algo­nquin Books of Chapel Hill. It won the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jew­ish lit­er­a­ture, was select­ed as one of Booklist’s top ten reli­gion books of the year, was award­ed the Amer­i­can Library Association’s Sophie Brody Medal and the Cana­di­an Jew­ish Book Award for his­to­ry, and was a final­ist in the Reli­gion Newswrit­ers Association’s award for best book of the year. Edi­tions have been pub­lished or are pend­ing in Israel, Aus­tralia, Hol­land, France, Ger­many, the Czech Repub­lic, Rus­sia and South Korea.