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