Don North has carved a niche for himself in war reporting and photojournalism by looking closely at conflicts in recent history. Armed with a Nikon, notepad and film or video, he has covered Vietnam, Afghanistan, El Salvador, the Gulf war, Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq–15 wars in 30 years. Following three years in Vietnam as a cameraman and then correspondent for ABC and NBC, North studied Arab Nationalism at Columbia University. Shifting focus from Asia, he was NBC bureau chief in Cairo and covered the Middle East. He was based in Tel Aviv in 1973 and followed the advance of Israeli forces in the Golan and Suez. He covered the Afghan war against Soviet occupation, and during the Gulf War, he served as Media Advisor to Joint Commander Prince Khalid Bin Sultan. During the Iraq War, he was embedded with the 101st Airborne and after the fall of Baghdad became Senior Advisor for the Iraq Media Network. Recently he has lectured at Washington area universities and produced video documentaries on Iraq, Vietnam, Burma and Pakistan. For the Voice of America he has conducted training programs for journalists in Vietnam, Indonesia, Montenegro and Serbia.