Jeremy Curl

Jeremy Robert Patrick Curl (b. 13 March 1982) is an Anglo-Irish filmmaker, writer, photographer and explorer. In 2008 he became the first non-African to cross the Tanezrouft area of the Sahara without motorized transport [Country Life Magazine, 17 September 2008] and the youngest to traverse the Sahara by camel. [Wanderlust Magazine October 2008] During his time in the desert he lived with the Touareg nomads, traveling with the tribes of the Kel Ahaggar, witnessing their threatened lifestyle first hand. While in the Sahara he crossed the 1200 miles on foot and by camel from Algeria to Timbuktu in Mali, reaching the city in only 50 days. He has published articles about his findings and experiences and written a basic dictionary of Tamasheq, the language of the Touareg.

Curl has travelled widely in Africa and Asia and has worked with statesmen and artists alike, from being photographer to Cuban laureate Pablo Armando Fernández to filmmaker to the President of Latvia. While in Cuba he interviewed the Castro family about Cuba's political future. He worked briefly at the British Museum, London, in the Ancient Egyptology department alongside reknown Egyptologist Vivien Davies where he learnt to read Egyptian hieroglyphs and awakened his love for ancient and enigmatic cultures.As a film director he has won the Horror Film Festival, the Netherlands and has lectured on film theory in the UK and abroad. He is also a published cryptographer having contributed to academic journals internationally including the journal Eidos.

Curl was born in Tokyo to English and Irish parents and educated at Charterhouse [http://namesdatabase.com/schools/UK/SY/Godalming/Charterhouse] in Surrey, England where he won an art scholarship and subsequently the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands and Lund University, Sweden, where he read History.

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* [http://www.jeremycurl.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.newint.org/columns/currents/2006/07/01/iran/ New Internationalist Magazine]
* [http://www.ricenpeas.com/docs/nationalism.html Rice n Peas Films]