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.
Jonathan Guyer in conversation at Harvard Book Store
Jonathan Guyer (Egypt, 2015-2017) will take part in a conversation with Molly Crabapple, author of Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War, on Tuesday, June 12 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. More information here.
PRI: Jonathan Guyer on the arrest of an Egyptian satirist
Abu Zeid is likely to be tried under a stringent new counter-terrorism law indiscriminately deployed against perceived dissenters.
Jonathan Guyer to give talk at Harvard
Former fellow Jonathan Guyer (Egypt, 2015-2017) will deliver a seminar called “Cartooning the Police: A Graphic History of Contemporary Egypt” on Thursday, April 5 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Click here for information. Image credit here.
The Harvard Gazette: Jonathan Guyer on Arabic cartoons
A “new wave” of comics is rolling across the Middle East and North Africa.
BBC Radio 4: Jonathan Guyer on Arab Noir
A revolution has been creeping across the Middle East, giving authors and scholars an opportunity to critique imported wars, local autocrats and arrested revolutions.