Author
Tor Eigeland
Norwegian-born Tor Eigeland has traveled all his life as a freelance writer and photographer, and he has contributed for decades to AramcoWorld as well as to many other publications.
Articles by this author
All the Lands Were Sea
History
Arts & Culture
In late 1967, photographer Tor Eigoland traveled for more than: a month, mostly by canoe, among the countless villages of southern Iraq's vast marshes. Now, 45 years later, writer Anthony Sattin calls his photographs a "rare and ethnographic record of a lost world. They bring us back to a time and place where people lived in harmony with their environment and respected the balance the natural world needs to thrive.'
FirstLook: Aswan, Egypt, May 14, 1964
Arts & Culture
History
In 1966, a Norwegian-born, Mexico-educated, Beirut-resident photographer and journalist named Tor Eigeland took his first assignment for this magazine. Since then, his byline has appeared more than 50 times on some of our most popular stories from around the globe. This is his story of one of his earliest assignments in the Middle East.
50 Years Behind the Lens
Arts & Culture
In 1966, a Norwegian-born, Mexico-educated, Beirut-resident photographer and journalist named Tor Eigeland took his first assignment for this magazine. Since then, his byline has appeared more than 50 times on some of our most popular stories from around the globe. Now living in England, he reflects on a few of his—and the editors’—favorite images.
A Legation Turns to Education
History
Strategic and even glamorous at times over 196 years, the American Legation in Tangier, Morocco, is today a neighborhood cultural center where young and old improve reading and writing and learn new skills.