Philippa Neave is senior advisor on the UN's Lexicon of Electoral Terminology.

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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)...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Around 39 million people in the world are affected by blindness -- 80% of which could be avoided if people had timely access to diagnosis and proper treatment. The problem is that in many developing countries, most eye care providers are in cities, while the majority of patients live in hard-to-reach rural areas. To bridge this gap, London-bas...

About this event: Have you ever wondered where the knowledge comes from? How it is transmitted through generations? How does it die? We are quite sure that we built pyramids of Egypt but are we equally sure about how we built them? How did humanity manage to preserve a certain kind of knowledge like religious knowledge even before the art of writing was invented?...

Photo: James Duncan Davidson Space archeology pioneer and Egyptologist Sarah Parcak zooms out from the moment 90 years ago when Howard Carter peered by candlelight into King Tut's tomb to a new age of archaeological discovery: seeking ancient civilization by 21st-century candlelight. Sarah uses satellite imagery to find evidence of ancien...