Contributors

William Branigin served as Southeast Asia bureau chief of The Washington Post for 10 years, reporting from more than a dozen countries in the region. He was based in Bangkok from 1981 to 1986 and in Manila from 1990 to 1995.

Mark Blackwell has more than 20 years of experience in covering issues ranging from science and economics to politics and cross-border issues in Latin America for news organizations that include Hearst Corporation and Capital Cities/ABC. He specializes in information graphics.

Patralekha Chatterjee is a Delhi-based writer whose work has appeared in The Guardian, Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Economic Times of India.

Bronwyn Curran is an Islamabad-based journalist who formerly worked as a Pakistan and Afghanistan correspondent for the news agency Agence France Presse. She is also the author of Into the Mirror, a biography of Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani woman who was allegedly gang-raped in 2002 and became an international symbol of female oppression.

Karen Emmons is a Bangkok-based journalist who has contributed to the International Herald Tribune and other publications.

Kevin Hamdorf is a Philippines-based photographer whose work has appeared in Reader’s Digest, The New York Times, Stars & Stripes and many other publications.

Bruce Heilbuth has worked as a journalist and foreign correspondent on four continents. For the best part of 10 years, he was editor-in-chief of Reader’s Digest magazine’s Australasian and Asian-English editions.

Jason P. Howe, who is based in Kabul for part of every year, has photographed conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Latin America, and other parts of the world for top publications, including TIME International, The Sunday Times, The International Herald Tribune, Financial Times, and many others.

James Hutchison has worked as a writer and photographer in Asia for more than 25 years. His work has appeared in more than 30 international publications.

Margo Pfeiff is a Canada-based journalist and photographer with 30 years of experience writing for the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and other publications. She is currently researching a book on the Arctic.

Jerome Starkey is the Afghanistan correspondent for The Times of London. His work has also appeared in The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Daily Mail, The Scotsman, and The Evening Standard.

Floyd Whaley, senior editor of Development Asia, operates Asia Editorial Services. His work has appeared in USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, Discovery Channel Magazine, and many other media outlets. He is currently updating the Insight Guide to Southeast Asia.