#UWRF2025: Pico Iyer has eyes for you… and youMuhammad Cohen

At the Ubud Writers Festival in Bali, travel writer Pico Iyer shrugged off the idea of conflicted identity as an ethnic South Asian born in the UK that moved to California as a child: “It just means I have three sets of eyes through which to view things.”

Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for Clarion Media, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and now on Blue Sky @MuhammadCohen.bsky.social.