Wright, Jonathan, 1953-
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Name (Latin)
Wright, Jonathan, 1953-
Other forms of name
Wright, Jonathan (Translator)
Date of birth
1953-12-14
Place of birth
Andover (England)
Associated country
Great Britain
Other associated place
Oxford (England)
Middle East
Associate group
Reuters Limited
Reuters Limited (1980)
Occupation
correspondent
Translators
Foreign correspondents
Journalists
Associated Language
engara
Gender
male
Fuller form of name
Jonathan Alexander Walter
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Wikipedia, August 3, 2023(Jonathan Wright is a British journalist and literary translator; born in Andover, Hampshire, and spent his childhood in Canada, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Germany; studied Arabic, Turkish and Islamic civilisation at St John's College, Oxford; joined Reuters news agency in 1980 as a correspondent, and has been based in the Middle East for most of the last three decades; has served as Reuters' Cairo bureau chief, and he has lived and worked throughout the region, including in Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Tunisia and the Persian Gulf region. From 1997 to 2003, he was based in Washington, DC, covering US foreign policy for Reuters)
- The madman of Freedom Square, 2009:t.p. (Jonathan Wright; translator)
- Email from author, Aug. 27, 2009(Jonathan Alexander Walter Wright ; b. Dec. 14, 1953)
- Azazeel, 2012:page 312 (Jonathan Wright studied Arabic and Turkish at Oxford University and has worked in the Middle East for most of the past thirty five years, mostly as a correspondent for the international news agency Reuters. Since he turned to literary translation in 2007, his translations include The Madman of Freedom Square)
- Jonathan Wright is a British journalist and literary translator; Wright was born in Andover, Hampshire, and spent his childhood in Canada, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Germany. He attended Packwood Haugh School from 1966 to 1967 and Shrewsbury School from 1967 to 1971. He studied Arabic, Turkish and Islamic civilization at St John's College, Oxford. 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 U.S. foreign policy for Reuters. For two years until the fall 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 ( (Wikipedia, March 15, 2016:) )