[3] The documentary about the Trojan Women Project’s 2013 pilot programme in Jordan, Queens of Syria[4], directed by Yasmin Fedda - which Eagar executive produced has won many awards, including Best Director in the Arab World at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival (2014).
Education Eagar read Classics at Oxford and has a post graduate diploma in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from Edinburgh University.
[9] After a brief stint as an apprentice dress-designer for the couturier Victor Edelstein in 1986 where she helped make dresses for, amongst others, the late Princess of Wales,[10] Eagar headed to journalism.
[13] Eagar also continued to write for many other publications – including Prospect,[14] the Spectator, and Sunday Times Magazine,[15] , continuing her interest in foreign affairs, writing from Iraq for the Times Magazine in 2004 about the boom in governments sub-contracting security in war zones to private security firms[16] and the looting of artworks from Baghdad's Iraq Museum and for [17] the Mail on Sunday, from places such as Afghanistsan (2006 - investigating alleged fraud by the British government on Afghan poppy farmers in Helmand); to South Korea (2008), investigating refugees being smuggled from North Korea to South Korea and covering the Somali pirate crisis in 2011-12.
[18] In 2012, she joined Newsweek as a Contributing Editor and was sent on assignment to various countries, including Italy and Bosnia, where she covered Srebrenica's DNA identification program [19] amongst other stories.
The project has been designed to help refugees overcome their isolation, depression, and trauma, through regular drama workshops, while giving the participants, through plays and films, a platform to tell their stories to the world.
[32] Since 2013, the Trojan Women Project has continued this pattern of drama workshops in Jordan, Europe, and the UK, with performances combined with accompanying films.
[40][41] Their 2016 adaptation of The Trojan Women, also called Queens of Syria, directed by Zoe Lafferty and co-produced with the Young Vic and the theatrical charity Developing Artists,[42] toured the UK.
[43] Footage from Queens of Syria 2016 Young Vic/Developing Artists Theatrical Performance Film was included in the British Museum's 2019 Troy: Myth and Reality exhibition.
[7] During Covid, TWP ran Enscripted, a programme of regular zoom black comedy-drama groups, working with Syrian participants from all over the Middle East, Europe, and the UK.
[62] She recently contributed a chapter to Contemporary Representations of Forced Migration in Europe, edited by Fiona Barclay and Beatrice Ivey of Stirling University (2024).