The first week of February, 2011: crowds of anti-government protesters collide with supporters of President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt’s Tahrir Square, some riding camels and wielding batons, breaking shoulders, cracking skulls, and spurring survivors to retaliate by setting fire to almost a hundred police stations; and a young man named Arjun Bisen begins his onboarding as an Foreign Service Officer in Canberra, Australia, on the opposite side of the globe.