The most widely-syndicated political cartoonist in the world, according to the 1999 Guinness Book of World Records, Ranan Lurie has created more than 11,000 political cartoons, published ten cartoon books and one novel. Nominated in 2002 by the Republic of Cyprus for the Nobel Peace Prize, Lurie’s work has appeared in publications such as Life, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time Int., U.S. News & World Report, Die Welt, The London Times, The Asahi Shimbun, the Neue Zurcher Zeitung of Switzerland and the Foreign Affairs Magazine, where he now serves as the publication’s regular political cartoonist. He is also a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., and the editor-in-chief of cartoonnewsmagazine.com.

Before relocating to the United States as a cartoonist for Life in 1968, Lurie, who was born in Egypt, served as staff political cartoonist for Israel’s largest paper, Yedioth Aharonoth for nearly 10 years. Publishing his first cartoon book at the age of 20, he was named two years later the editor-in-chief of an Israeli news magazine. He has received 22 national and international awards, had 17 exhibitions, sculpted 28 statues, painted more than 2,000 oil/acrylic paintings, and has written nearly 3,200 articles. Lurie has taught at the University of Hawaii and lectured on current affairs at a number of universities and colleges.

In addition to interviewing over 72 world leaders, Lurie has done caricatures of presidents Gerald Ford and George Bush, secretaries of state William Rogers and Henry Kissinger of the United States. In 1995, the United Nations Society of Artists and Writers designated the annual International Award for Political Cartooning to be named after Lurie.

Lurie lives and works in New York with his wife and four children.

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