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TEDxZamalek: Revival - an independently organized event

About this event: Neighbourhoods develop in cycles. At first young & energetic, they slowly but surely become places of activity & importance. The cycle of life applies for neighbourhoods as they reach maturity, a peak in output & vitality only to then slowly start to show signs of age. Dust settles in. Unlike living organisms neighbourhoods can b...
Event details: cairo, Al Qāhirah, Egypt · February 28, 2015
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/12267

Philippa Neave | TED Speaker

Philippa Neave is senior advisor on the UN's Lexicon of Electoral Terminology.
Electoral consultant
https://www.ted.com/speakers/philippa_neave

TEDxMinia - an independently organized event

About this event: In this event we are trying to come up with some social crisis which concern the public from many perspectives like, Sexual harassment, Social media and solitude, How could open spaces change the world, We also discussed the state of art in Egypt and how its affect on many aspects of our culture. Our Theme for this event is "Wawa-Aba" which...
Event details: Minya, Al Minyā, Egypt · October 24, 2014
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/9934

Gallery: Archaeological mysteries hidden in satellite images

Archaeology is a puzzle. For Sarah Parcak, trying to find ancient treasures is made exponentially easier by satellite imagery. Archaeologists have many tools at their disposal: shovels, trowels, satellites. If you are scratching your head at that final entry, check out how TED Prize winner Sarah Parcak uses satellite imagery to locate long-lost...
Posted February 17, 2016
https://ideas.ted.com/gallery-archaeological-mysteries-hidden-in-satellite-images

The many wonders of space archaeology

Strange as it may seem, archaeologists often look to the sky to discover sites buried deep beneath the earth. Space archaeology, as it’s called, refers to the use of high-resolution satellite imaging and lasers to map and model everything from hidden Mayan ruins in Central America to specific features on the ancient Silk Road trade route in ...
Posted February 6, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/if-indiana-jones-had-only-had-a-satellite-the-many-wonders-of-space-archaeology

How archaeology has shaped me as a parent

TED Prize winner Sarah Parcak has learned some key lessons about parenthood from her work as an archaeologist. At the same time, becoming a parent has given her new insights into what her work means. Parenthood is perhaps the most binary experience we go through -- there’s an "is not" and then there’s an "is." For a split moment during labor, y...
Posted September 28, 2016
https://ideas.ted.com/how-archaeology-has-shaped-me-as-a-parent

It’s time we inverted the pyramids: Satellite archaeologist Sarah Parcak invites the world into her work

Sarah Parcak is a space archaeologist, and has located multiple lost ancient sites. Still, she says, it’s easy to pick her greatest discovery: her husband, Greg Mumford, who she met on her very first dig in Egypt. He was her first lesson in “finding unexpected wonderful things,” she says, and a second lesson followed quickly. On that same tr...
Posted February 16, 2016
https://blog.ted.com/2016/02/16/sarah-parcak-shares-her-ted-prize-wish

TEDxFrenchUniversityinEgypt - an independently organized event

About this event: TEDxFrenchUniversityInEgypt is a full-day conference happening on Friday, March 23th, 2018 with 12 speakers and 2 performers; curated from thought leaders in the university campus, as well as grassroot speakers sharing their inspiring stories. TEDxFrenchUniversityInEgypt includes breakfast, lunch, and a coffee-break. With 100 attendees will tak...
Event details: CAIRO, Al Qāhirah, Egypt · March 22, 2018
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/24841

Revolution in <em>The Square</em>: Q&A with Jehane Noujaim

Egyptian filmmaker Jehane Noujaim won the TED Prize in 2006 with a wish to bring the world together for one day using the power of film. Her most recent work, The Square, saw her heading back to Cairo to track events in Tahrir Square as the Hosni Mubarak regime fell. While there, she filmed a group of local revolutionaries who had also been ...
Posted February 23, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/02/23/revolution-in-the-square-qa-with-jehane-noujaim

6 talks for thinking about the Arab Spring

Two years ago, waves of revolution swept through the Middle East. On February 17, 2011 -- two months after civil resistance began in Tunisia and less than a month after the people of Egypt rose up in Tahrir Square -- revolt began in Libya to oust dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Activist Zahra' Langhi was part of the "day of rage" that eventuall...
Posted February 4, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/02/04/6-talks-for-thinking-about-the-arab-spring

Wish: The speakers in session 4 of TED2014

What powers the journey to a better future? Some really big wishes, and even bigger ideas. Our speakers in this session all have the tenacity, hope and relentless optimism necessary to believe that we can make progress in solving some of the most intractable problems of our time. Here are the speakers who appeared in this session. Click below...
Posted March 18, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/03/18/wish-the-speakers-in-session-4-of-ted2014

Sarah Parcak: Help discover ancient ruins -- before it's too late

Sarah Parcak uses satellites orbiting hundreds of miles above Earth to uncover hidden ancient treasures buried beneath our feet. There's a lot to discover; in the Egyptian Delta alone, Parcak estimates we've excavated less than a thousandth of one percent of what's out there. Now, with the 2016 TED Prize and an infectious enthusiasm for archaeol...
https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_parcak_help_discover_ancient_ruins_before_it_s_too_late

Rana Abdelhamid | TED Speaker

Rana Abdelhamid is an internationally acclaimed community organizer, first-degree black belt, public speaker and social entrepreneur focused on mass mobilization, international solidarity and the empowerment of marginalized communities.
Community organizer, entrepreneur
https://www.ted.com/speakers/rana_abdelhamid

TEDxSanStefano - an independently organized event

About this event: Here is Alexandria … Here our city shone on the shadows of dark history … Alexandria illuminated the shores of the Mediterranean … Here is the Library of Alexandria, where the roads where paved for science ... Here is the history was made history ... Here Alexandria … Yesterday, today and forever. The Pharaohs, the Greeks, the Romans, the Arabs...
Event details: Alexandria, Egypt, Al Iskandarīyah, Egypt · September 6, 2019
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/33070

TEDxSanStefano: TEDxSanStefano 20210910 - an independently organized event

About this event: After an interruption during the pandemic, there were days after which life was not the same as it was before. Everything has changed.. something has changed in the world and things have changed inside us.. we quickly realized that life before the pandemic was just a comfortable ‘safe zone’ guaranteed in a way or another. No one would have imagi...
Event details: Alexandria, Egypt, Al Iskandarīyah, Egypt · November 4, 2021
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/40067

TEDxYouth@ISEE - an independently organized event

About this event: TEDXYouth@ISEE is organized mainly by students and faculty members from The International School of Elite Education. The event hopes to bring research and knowledge as well as passion and creativity to the TEDx stage. We believe that any voice no matter the source must be heard and can be inspiring, which is why we are honored to have this uniqu...
Event details: Cairo, Al Qāhirah, Egypt · May 21, 2016
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/18741

Announcing our 2016 TED Prize winner: Satellite archaeologist Sarah Parcak

She’s best described as the modern-day Indiana Jones. Using infrared imagery from satellites, she identifies ancient sites lost in time. In Egypt, she helped locate 17 potential pyramids, plus 1,000 potential forgotten tombs and 3,100 possible lost settlements. That’s in addition to her discoveries throughout the Roman Empire. Sarah Parca...
Posted November 9, 2015
https://blog.ted.com/2015/11/09/announcing-our-2016-ted-prize-winner-satellite-archaeologist-sarah-parcak

An ode to 51 lost children: Fellows Friday with Bahia Shehab

On November 17, 2012, in a village in Assuit-Egypt, a train crashed into a school bus killing 51 children. These kinds of accidents have always been brushed aside as random acts of chance. The minister of transportation resigned as a result, and the families of the children were compensated financially. There was a huge public outcry ... but...
Posted February 8, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/02/08/an-ode-to-51-lost-children-fellows-friday-with-bahia-shehab

What the ancient past can teach us about the chaos of 2016

This year has been marked by upheaval on a global scale -- and many of us are wondering: What will happen next? Satellite archaeologist and TED Prize winner Sarah Parcak shares three examples from the ancient past that offer lessons for today. 2016 has been a bruising year. We’ve had the highly contentious election in the US, the divisive Brexi...
Posted November 1, 2016
https://ideas.ted.com/what-the-ancient-past-can-teach-us-about-the-chaos-of-2016

Jehane Noujaim’s “The Square” premieres at the Sundance Film Festival

However, many of these cameras were captured during violent clashes. Filmmaker Jehane Noujaim -- who won the TED Prize in 2006 and wished for a global day of film -- seeks to tell the story of these protestors in her new documentary, The Square. The film combines the shocking and powerful footage taken by the protestors themselves, along with...
Posted January 22, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/01/22/jehane-noujaims-the-square-premieres-at-the-sundance-film-festival

'The Square' and the streets, 3 years on: Jehane Noujaim at TED2014

In 2006, filmmaker Jehane Noujaim won a TED Prize with her wish to bring the world together for one day of film. Today during Session 4: Wish, she talks about her latest film, The Square. The Oscar-nominated documentary follows the lives of a group of protestors during the Egyptian Revolution. Their mantra: "We will no longer live in the story...
Posted March 18, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/03/18/the-square-and-the-streets-3-years-on-jehane-noujaim-at-ted2014

TEDxYouth@AAIS - an independently organized event

About this event: .Ready. Set. Go Are you ready to feel the impulse ? TEDxYouth@AAIS is proud to bring you a day full of excitement, interaction, and ideas worth spreading. TEDxYouth@AAIS is an independetly organized TED event featuring speakers, performers, activities and TED videos. Discussing what ?? EVERYTHING. The problems you once faced. The dreams you...
Event details: New Cairo, Al Qāhirah, Egypt · July 28, 2018
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/27315

Reading List: A selection of must-read ebooks

"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'" —Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1866)...
Posted August 31, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/08/31/reading-list-a-selection-of-must-read-ebooks

TED Fellows take over the Oval Office, Elon Musk opens Tesla’s patent trove, Sebastian Thrun on the NanoDegree and much more

Several members of the TED community appeared in the news this week. Below, some highlights: Yesterday marked the first-ever White House Maker Faire, which brought together 100 students, entrepreneurs, engineers and tinkerers from across the country. A 17-foot robotic giraffe attended, as did TED Fellows Jane Chen, David Lang, Manu Prakash ...
Posted June 19, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/06/19/ted-fellows-invade-the-oval-office-and-much-more

TED Prize winner Sarah Parcak unearths ancient mysteries on "60 Minutes"

What’s the best way to find something lost on the ground, like a historical site from a civilization lost to time? For archaeologist Sarah Parcak, the answer’s obvious -- from way up above, using satellites, of course. As a space archaeologist, she’s mapped the lost city of Tanis (of Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark fame) and identified th...
Posted May 22, 2017
https://blog.ted.com/2017/05/22/ted-prize-winner-sarah-parcak-unearths-ancient-mysteries-on-60-minutes

The story of writing in Africa: Saki Mafundikwa at TED2013

Saki Mafundikwa founded the Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts, ZIVA, a Bauhaus-style school focused on African heritage. (“Vigital” denotes visual arts taught using digital tools.) It's the first graphic design and new media college in the nation, and he wanted his students to understand the power of design--and in particular to understand ...
Posted February 28, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/02/28/the-story-of-writing-in-africa-saki-mafundikwa-at-ted2013

Gallery: Women in Gaza and their determined quest for higher education

In this contested territory, women must endure a lengthy, frustrating process when they pursue a university education abroad. Here are four of their stories. “For me, two basic human rights are the right to education and the freedom of movement,” says Kuwaiti-raised Palestinian photojournalist Laura Boushnak (TED Talk: For these women, reading ...
Posted February 28, 2017
https://ideas.ted.com/gallery-women-in-gaza-and-their-determined-quest-for-higher-education

Sarah Parcak crowdsources archaeology

I wish for us to discover the millions of unknown archaeological sites across the globe. By building an online citizen science platform and training a 21st century army of global explorers, we'll find and protect the world's hidden heritage, which contains clues to humankind's collective resilience and creativity. The plan What would happen if I...
https://www.ted.com/participate/ted-prize/prize-winning-wishes/globalxplorer

Searching for the history of cancer in ancient human bones

Paleo-oncologist Katie Hunt has a personal connection to the hunt for cancer's earliest appearance in humans. When archeologist Katie Hunt was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at 22, it catalyzed her curiosity about cancer -- and she soon found evidence that this modern killer is a surprisingly ancient disease. Poring over old texts and past arche...
Posted January 13, 2016
https://ideas.ted.com/why-im-searching-for-cancer-in-ancient-human-bones

Introductory essay

Written by the educators who created Understanding Islam, a brief look at the key facts, tough questions and big ideas in their field. Begin this TED Study with a fascinating read that gives context and clarity to the material. The TED Talks provide a unique opportunity for an educated layman to learn about the core beliefs and practices of Isla...
https://www.ted.com/read/ted-studies/religion/introductory-essay
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