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Jonathan Guyer is a program associate at the New America Foundation’s Middle East Task Force and blogs at Mideast by Midwest.

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Jonathan Guyer is a program associate at the New America Foundation's Middle East Task Force and blogs at Mideast by Midwest.

Jonathan Guyer is a program associate at the New America Foundation’s Middle East Task Force and blogs at Mideast by Midwest.

Jonathan Guyer is senior editor of the Cairo Review of Global Affairs. He blogs about Arabic comics and caricature at Oum Cartoon. On Twitter: @mideastXmidwest. Twitter: @mideastXmidwest
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