Jonathan Guyer

ICWA Dispatches by Jonathan Guyer

  • Fast Times at Art Dubai

    May 2, 2016 I am in a Masarati speeding toward the dinner party of an Iranian collector. A publicist invited me an hour ago. The motor hums, gently...

  • The Paper, the Pen, and the President

    7 March 2016 One Sunday in January, Islam Gawish was running late. The 26-year-old cartoonist, famous for sardonic stick figures published on his viral Facebook page “El-Warka” or...

  • A Season in Hell

    21 January, 2016 Ahmed Naji is a 30-year-old journalist and novelist. When we meet for dinner in mid-December, he faces a lawsuit for “infringing on public decency” that...

  • Remembrance of Things Past

    The Cairo Review of Global Affairs - In his review of Riad Sattouf's graphic memoir, The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984, Fellow Jonathan Guyer delves...

  • Arabs of the Future: Beirut in the Present Tense

    13 January 2015 I had flown to Beirut for the first annual Symposium on Arabic Comics to deliver a paper about the Franco-Syrian comic artist Riad Sattouf’s incredibly...

Publications by Jonathan Guyer

  • Jonathan Guyer in The Atlantic

    “There’s a very thin line between being a propagandist and a cartoonist. In the end, we’re critics.” Former ICWA Fellow Jonathan Guyer published an article, titled "The Gulf...

  • Jonathan Guyer wins SFJ Award

    Jonathan Guyer has won third prize for arts and entertainment commentary in the Society for Features Journalism’s 2017 Excellence in Features awards. Jonathan was recognized for his work...