AFAR Media in the News

February 22, 2010
Travel Savvy

Greg Sullivan is a globe trotting serial entrepreneur.  Together with co-founder Joe Diaz, Greg launched AFAR Media for those interested in experiential travel...Read more

February 9, 2010
The Washington Post

Hmmm. Andrew McCarthy -- yes, the Brat Pack actor -- was detained by a gunman in Ethiopia . . . while on assignment for a new travel magazine...Read more

February 8, 2010
MSNBC

Andrew McCarthy had a harrowing experience while on assignment for the travel magazine Afar recently, as he was escorted at gunpoint out of an historic underground church for intruding without documentation...Read more

February 8, 2010
PopEater

Times sure have changed for '80s heartthrob Andrew McCarthy. While penning a piece for travel magazine AFAR, the actor was detained at gunpoint after entering an Ethiopian church without proper documentation...Read more

February 8, 2010
People.com

Weekend at Bernie's, this wasn't.
Andrew McCarthy had a harrowing experience while on assignment for the travel magazine Afar
recently...Read more

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AFAR Foundation

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Birth of the Idea

Our founders talk about how it all started.