Ariel Sabar

Award-winning author and journalist
May 5, 2017 - 4:00pm
“A conversation on the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife”
HGS 211 See map
320 York St.

Cosponsored by Archaia, Yale Divinity School and the Classics Library

 
 
 
 

About the Speaker 

Ariel Sabar won the National Book Critics Circle Award for his debut book, My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq (2008). His second book, Heart of the City (2011), was called a “beguiling romp” (New York Times) and an “engaging, moving and lively read” (Toronto Star). His Kindle Single, The Outsider: The Life and Times of Roger Barker (2014), was a best-selling nonfiction short. 

Ariel is also an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, The Atlantic, Washington Post, Mother Jones, and This American Life, among many other places. He is a contributing editor at Smithsonian Magazine and Washingtonian Magazine, and a former staff writer for the Providence Journal, Baltimore Sun, and Christian Science Monitor, where he covered the 2008 presidential campaigns. He has reported from Africa, Europe, Scandinavia, and the Middle East.

Ariel graduated magna cum laude from Brown University. He has taught creative writing at The George Washington University and has lectured on the crafts of journalism and memoir at Brown, Johns Hopkins, The University of Maryland-College Park, and Georgetown. He has been interviewed about his books and articles on NPR, PBS NewsHour, C-SPAN, and the BBC World Service.