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.