Jon Elmer is a Canadian writer and photojournalist specializing in the Middle East and Canadian foreign and military policy. He has lived in and reported from more than a dozen countries, including Nepal (1998), the Basque region, Western Sahara and Morocco (2000), Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and the Sinai (2003–11). His material has appeared in the Journal of Palestine Studies, Le Monde diplomatique, and The Progressive, among others. He is a regular contributor to Al Jazeera English and a frequent public speaker and radio guest. Jon completed an honours degree in political science at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His thesis - "Pulling from the roots" - was a study of Israel's policy of assassination during the al-Aqsa intifada.