International magazine editor and travel writer
















Commissioned by:


BBC Radio 4 Excess Baggage,

BBC Radio 4 From My Own Correspondent,

BBC World Service,

BBC Southern Counties Radio,

National Geographic Traveller,

Daily Mail,

The Telegraph,

Sunday Times,

New Statesman,

Africa Geographic,

Geographical Magazine,

Mongabay.com

The Lady,

Msafiri (Travel Africa),

B-Spirit (Brussels Airlines),

Heritage magazine,

Penguin UK,

Gabon Magazine,

Everything Spain,

Ocio Magazine,

Everything France,

A Place in the Sun,

Spain Magazine,

Living Abroad,

My Travelite,

The Tourism Society Journal,

Selling Longhaul Magazine

Emirates Woman,

Arabian Woman,

Evening Argus,

Home & Country,

West Sussex Gazette.

© Sarah Monaghan – all rights reserved

CAREER BACKGROUND

Sarah began her career in regional newspapers before becoming Travel and Deputy Editor of Home & Country magazine, then editing a range of titles in the Middle East (1997-2002).

    In 2003, she was selected as Launch Editor of Everything Spain (2003-5), a magazine about Spanish travel, property, culture, traditions, gastronomy and wine, and history.

    She is currently Editor of Gabon Magazine, a quarterly publication produced in English and French versions, about the West African ecotourism destination of Gabon.

    Her work in consumer and client magazines led to the Middle East becoming a special interest. She worked in the UAE from 1997-2002 edited the region’s leading glossy women's title, Emirates Woman, and and Living in the Gulf from Dubai.



   


   

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An experienced editor and travel journalist,

Sarah contributes to a range of international

travel and lifestyle publications and radio

programmes (BBC Radio 4/World Service).

Email: sarahmonaghan@me.com


MIDDLE EAST

The editorship of Emirates Woman gave her the opportunity to travel widely in the Gulf and interview many personalities in the world of fashion and design, including Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, Jean Paul Guerlain and Thierry Mugler and to meet the world's most inspiring politician, Nelson Mandela, at the Burj al-Arab, the world's tallest hotel.

    From 2001-2, she was appointed senior editor of Middle East Health magazine for global communications company Trident Communications and produced high-end publications, brochures and newsletters for clients that included Emirates Airlines, Qatar Airways. BP and the American Business Council.

    She is co-author of the Eyewitness Top Ten Guide to Dubai and Abu Dhabi (Dorling Kindersley, 2010).

  


   

 

Contact:sarahmonaghan@me.com

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Playground of the Middle East, BBC Radio 4 Excess Baggage

Left: At Clarence House, London, during The Prince’s Rainforest Project with President Bongo of Gabon and Dr Lee White, Head of Gabon’s National Parks Agency