He found living and working in Beijing tough but was hooked on the possibilities in filming a society in transition.

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He found the city tough but was hooked on the possibilities of a society in transition.

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Her new book, Iron Butterflies: Women Transforming Themselves and the World captures a powerful time of transition in our society, led primarily by women.

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But in contemporary society, we have trouble talking about the obvious: The transition from boy to man is a risky endeavor, and there can be a lot of collateral damage.

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So the sort of values that we would prefer to have in Egyptian society were really at risk in this transition.

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All these things do not go unnoticed, and people understand the need for an economic transition to put society on a more sustainable footing more than they ever have, in spite of efforts from some quarters to convince them otherwise.

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