From Cairo, Jonathan focused on examining connections between cultural currents and political change across the region. He has been living and working in Egypt since 2012, where he is a contributing editor of the Cairo Review of Global Affairs, a policy journal published by the American University in Cairo. From 2012 to 2013, he was a Fulbright fellow researching political cartoons in Egypt. He previously served as a program associate for the New America Foundation’s Middle East Task Force in Washington, DC, and as assistant editor of Foreign Policy’s Middle East Channel. A frequent analyst on Public Radio International, he has contributed to Guernica, Harper’s, Modern Painters, The New York Review Daily, The New Yorker, The Paris Review Daily, New York Magazine, Nieman Reports, and others. His research on Egyptian satire has been cited by the Associated Press, CNN, The Economist, The Nation, New Statesman, Reuters, and TIME, as well a variety of international news outlets. A cartoonist himself, he blogs about Arabic comics and caricature at oumcartoon.tumblr.com.
The Guardian: Jonathan Guyer reviews books about Israel-Palestine conflict
“‘Israeli talking points in Carrie Bradshaw’s voice’: what we can learn from two Israel-Palestine bestsellers,” by Jonathan Guyer (Egypt, 2015-2017), The Guardian, November 13, 2023
The American Prospect: Jonathan Guyer on H.R. McMaster
President Trump’s former appointee has turned his time in the White House into profits.
The American Prospect: Jonathan Guyer on a cartoon’s potency
The unpopularity of the Emirati-Israel accord in the Arab world can’t be papered over.
The American Prospect: Jonathan Guyer on Biden’s foreign policy team
Vice President Joe Biden is choosing his foreign policy team from the shadowy world of strategic consultancies.
The American Prospect: Jonathan Guyer on the death of an Egyptian influencer
Shady Habash was arrested in 2018 after producing a music video insulting President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
