Jonathan Guyer, Author at Institute of Current World Affairs

Jonathan Guyer is program director for the Institute for Global Affairs at the Eurasia Group. His ICWA fellowship (Egypt, 2015-2017) was based in Cairo and examined connections between cultural currents and political change across the broader Middle East. He has reported on foreign policy, national security and Middle East issues for New York Magazine, The Guardian, the Washington Post and other publications. He also worked as a senior writer at Vox and as managing editor of The American Prospect. He was a 2017-2018 Harvard Radcliffe fellow and a Fulbright fellow researching political cartoons in Egypt in 2012-2013. He has a BA from Brown University.

ICWA Dispatches by Jonathan Guyer

Not another Western intervention
Can writers transcend archetypes, stereotypes and other misguided expectations? When I met an editor from an American newspaper five years ago, I sought guidance for crafting the perfect...
Report from Egypt past, present and future
The following is an adaptation of remarks I delivered at ICWA’s semi-annual gala on June 2 at the Cosmos Club, Washington, DC. On March 6, a colossal head...
Speech Bubbles: Comics and Political Cartoons in Sisi’s Egypt
The Century Foundation invited me to contribute a chapter on Egyptian cartoons and comics for Arab Politics beyond the Uprisings: Experiments in an Era of Resurgent Authoritarianism....
Nationalism for Kids: How Egyptian Comics Teach Conflict
I presented a version of this paper in February at “Framing War and Conflict in Comics,” the second annual Symposium on Arab Comics at the American University of...
Remembering Alexandria’s Visionary
In my first piece for the New York Times, I write an homage to the great Alexandrian scholar Mostafa el-Abbadi, who passed away in February. Several obituaries of...

Publications by Jonathan Guyer

The American Prospect: Jonathan Guyer on the need to protest
A pandemic is not the time to fall in line behind the president, but to demand action.
The American Prospect: Jonathan Guyer on Soleimani’s victory in death
The Iranian general's assassination only cements his legacy as a counter to US power.
The American Prospect: Jonathan Guyer on George W. Bush at the Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center’s exhibition of the former president's paintings of veterans rewrites the history of the Iraq war, former fellow Jonathan Guyer (Egypt, 2015-2017) writes in The American Prospect.
The American Prospect: Jonathan Guyer on Bernie’s Israel policy
Speaking at a conference of the liberal pro-Israel advocacy group J Street , Bernie Sanders energized the crowd by recommending a tough love approach to Israel, ICWA former fellow Jonathan Guyer (Egypt, 2015-2017) writes in The American Prospect. The senator from Vermont advocated conditioning aid to Israel on its human rights record. "He can take credit for creating space for a more robust discussion of the U.S.-Israel relationship, offering a progressive blueprint going forward," Jonathan writes.
The American Prospect: Jonathan Guyer on the Democrats’ worldview
ICWA former fellow Jonathan Guyer (Egypt, 2015-2017) discusses the main presidential candidates' views on foreign affairs. Read the full article here. Image credits here.