Usually, people who make important decisions for countries never live long enough to see the effects of their choices. It is almost always future generations who bear the burdens of the past. In 1978, the Chinese government created a political policy that would change the face of China. Under pressure to control a ballooning population in a country that was too poor to support it, the “One Child Policy” was created... Read more

It was on the 15th day of the Egyptian revolution that I first encountered Ahdaf Soueif in Tahrir Square. She wore big round sunglasses that swallowed her face, and a dark scarf covered her head and fell over her shoulders. It would have been easy to dismiss her as just another spirited revolutionary, but a flock of fellow protesters grew around her, and followed her, and stuck... Read more