Translated by Jonathan Wright
Jonathan Wright was born in Hampshire, England, in December 1953.
He is a British journalist and literary translator. He joined Reuters news agency in 1980 as a correspondent, and has been based in the Middle East for most of the last three decades. He has served as Reuters’ Cairo bureau chief, and he has lived and worked throughout the region, including in Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Tunisia and the Gulf. From 1998 to 2003, he was based in Washington, DC, covering US foreign policy for Reuters. For two years, until the autumn of 2011, Wright was editor of the Arab Media & Society Journal, published by the Kamal Adham Center for Journalism Training and Research at the American University in Cairo. He now lives in London.
Translated by Jonathan Wright
Translated by Jonathan Wright