Karen Leigh is a contributor to TIME, The Atlantic and others, currently in Berlin and previously based in West Africa. She also reported for TIME during the Arab Spring from Bahrain, Jordan, Egypt and Libya; worked as an anchor and reporter for Mint/WSJ in New Delhi; edited at an English-language daily in Cambodia; and traveled with the 2008 U.S. presidential campaigns for Bloomberg News. She has written for Monocle, The Newsweek Daily Beast and Foreign Policy and guested on Bloomberg TV and Deutsche Welle.