Eamonn Gearon
{{short description|British Arabist and author}}
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Eamonn Gearon is an author, Arabist, and analyst. Gearon's career goal has been the development of understanding and insight between the Greater Middle East and the West.{{cite web|title=The World according to...|url=http://www.wanderlust.co.uk/magazine/blogs/the-world-according-to-/eamonn-gearon-arabist-historian-author|work=Wanderlust Magazine|accessdate=28 June 2011}} Gearon is best known for his book The Sahara: A Cultural History (2011).{{cite book| title=The Sahara: A Cultural History | publisher=Signal Books | id={{ASIN|1904955827|country=uk}} }}
Gearon is also a desert explorer.{{cite web|title=The Sahara: A Long Way from a Cultural Desert|date=8 July 2011 |url=http://www.mikaelstrandberg.com/2011/07/08/the-sahara-a-long-way-away-from-a-cultural-desert/|publisher=Mikael Strandberg|accessdate=28 July 2011}} In 1997, he began his lifelong education in desert survival, navigation and camel husbandry. Initially studying under the Bedu in western Egypt, Eamonn Gearon went on to pursue solo, camel-powered explorations in the Egyptian Sahara.http://archive.arabnews.com/?page=21§ion=0&article=76566&d=22&m=1&y=2006/{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Education
Gearon has a B.Th. degree from the University of Southampton{{cite web|title=University of Southampton: Books by Alumni|url=http://www.soton.ac.uk/alumni/alumnicommunity/books.html|access-date=17 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111106181203/http://www.soton.ac.uk/alumni/alumnicommunity/books.html|archive-date=6 November 2011|url-status=dead}} and an MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies and Arabic from SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), the University of London.
Career
Gearon has written articles dealing with history, politics and social affairs across the Greater Middle East. His work has appeared in publications such as The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Times Literary Supplement, History Today,{{cite web|title=Arab Invasions: The First Islamic Empire|url=https://www.historytoday.com/eamonn-gearon/arab-invasions-first-islamic-empire|work=History Today|volume=61|accessdate=5 March 2020}} Al-Ahram, Geographical, New Internationalist, and The London Magazine.{{Citation needed|date=April 2012}}
Gearon briefs business intelligence organisations and writes for the Jane's group, Middle East International, and the Middle East magazine.{{cite web|title=Middle East Magazine|url=http://www.exacteditions.com/exact/search.do?term=middle+east+magazine&type=all|publisher=Exact Editions}}
=Film=
Gearon wrote, produced and directed the documentary film A Mother's Love. Shot entirely on location in post-genocide Rwanda, the film explores the life of Rosamond Carr, an American who lived in Rwanda for 50 years, and founded the Imbabazi Orphanage.{{IMDb name|id=1933022}}{{cite web|title=A Mother's Love|url=http://standfastproductions.com/}}
=Lectures=
Eamonn Gearon lectures on various topics, including the history, politics and current affairs of the Greater Middle East.
He has lectured, among other venues, at the Universities of Oxford{{cite web|title=From the Niger to the Nile: One Hundred Years of Saharan Exploration|url=http://www.astene.org.uk/calendar/9thConfProg.doc|publisher=ASTENE Ninth Biennial Conference, Oxford July 2011.|accessdate=5 March 2020}}{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}Edinburgh, Royal Scots Club, London School of Economics,{{cite web|title=The Sahara: A Cultural History|url=http://www2.lse.ac.uk/middleEastCentre/events/2011/EamonnGearon.aspx|publisher=LSE Middle East Center|accessdate=6 July 2011}} and the American University in Cairo; as a speaker on the {{RMS|Queen Mary 2}}{{cite web|title=Cunard Insights|url=https://www.cunard.co.uk/Documents/Insights_Calendar.pdf|publisher=Cunard}} and for other groups, such as Rotary International and Lions Clubs International.
Bibliography
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- Meetings With Remarkable Muslims, 2005 (ed. Barnaby Rogerson and Rose Baring).{{cite book|title=Meetings With Remarkable Muslims: A Collection|year=2005 |publisher=Eland & Sickle Moon Books|isbn=090787164X }}
- An Encyclopaedia of African History, 2004 (ed. Kevin Shillington).{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of African History 3-Volume Set|year=2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-57958-245-6|pages=1912}}
- Sahara Overland, 2004 (ed. Chris Scott).{{cite book|last=Scott|first=Chris|title=Sahara Overland|orig-date=2004|edition=2nd|year= 2005|publisher=Trailblazer Publications|location=UK|isbn=978-1-873756-76-8|pages=688}}
References
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External links
- [http://EamonnGearon.com/ Eamonn Gearon website]
- [http://Standfastproductions.com/ Standfast Productions]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110722223218/http://www.societyofauthors.org/profiles/writers/eamonn-gearon/ Society of Authors (SoA)]
- [http://www.travelintelligence.com/travel-writing/writers/eamonn-gearon/ Travel Intelligence] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110802222119/http://www.travelintelligence.com/travel-writing/writers/eamonn-gearon |date=2 August 2011 }}
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