Eamonn Gearon

Eamonn Gearon is a writer, photographer and filmmaker who has spent most of the past decade in various parts of North Africa. When not exploring the Sahara, he was teaching writing at the American University, Cairo, as well as writing for and editing various publications. He is currently writing a book about the oasis and people of Siwa, Egypt, where he lived for a year and a half, and planning a series of documentaries about continuing, although largely ignored or forgotten conflicts, and life during wartime, both for civilian populations and combatants. Eamonn's growing reputation as an authority on the politics and history of both North and sub-Saharan Africa has most recently been put to use when he was commissioned to make a major contribution to the writing of a major, three-volume encyclopedia of African history.