Peter Hessler

An intimate account of the Arab Spring, and Egypt's past and present, seen through the eyes of a wide range of Egyptians—political operators, archaeologists and garbage collectors; women, the queer community and migrants. Fascinated by Egypt's rich history, Peter Hessler moved with his family to Cairo just after the Arab Spring had begun. In the midst of the revolution, he...

More than twenty years after teaching English to China's first boom generation at a small college in Sichuan Province, Peter Hessler returned to teach the next generation. At the same time, Hessler's twin daughters became the only Westerners in a student body of about two thousand in their local primary school. Through reconnecting with his previous students, now in their...