As a Program Associate for the Middle East Task Force, Jonathan Guyer contributes to the program’s aim of bringing new perspectives to longstanding conflicts and reinvigorating US policy in the region. He provides program and research support to Daniel Levy, co-director of the Middle East Task Force.

Jonathan is also an assistant editor of The Middle East Channel, an online initiative of Foreign Policy Magazine and the Project on Middle East Political Science at George Washington University together with NAF’s Middle East Task Force. The site has rapidly become the premiere destination for informed online discussion of the Middle East.
 
Prior to joining the New America Foundation, Jonathan served as a project assistant for the National Democratic Institute’s Levant Team. He has also interned at The Middle East Report, The Century Foundation, and the Watson Institute for International Studies. Jonathan earned his A.B. from Brown University with a concentration in Development Studies. In addition to speaking Hebrew, Jonathan has studied Arabic in Cairo and Tangiers. In his free time, he draws political cartoons and blogs at Mideast by Midwest.