What do communities on the social, economic and environmental margins have in common? For one thing, they tend to be on the east sides of cities. In this short talk about a surprising insight, anthropologist and venture capitalist Stephen DeBerry explains how both environmental and man-made factors have led to disparity by design in cities from ...

One of the top chefs from Pasta Palace has been kidnapped by operatives from Burger Bazaar hoping to learn the location of their secret sauce recipe. Little do they know that a third party— Sausage Saloon— has sent you, their top spy, to take advantage of the situation. Can you figure out the location of the secret recipe and steal it for yourse...

Comedian Maz Jobrani has some advice for anyone who happens to be Middle Eastern and getting on a plane in the United States. “As a Middle Eastern male, I know there’s certain things I’m not supposed to say on an airplane in the U.S. I can’t walk down the aisle and be like, ‘Hi, Jack.’ Even if I’m there with my friend Jack, I say, ‘Greeting...

About this event: TEDxBeirut is a full-day conference featuring 21 speakers and performers; curated from thought leaders in the Middle East and abroad, as well as grassroots speakers sharing their inspiring stories. The presenters lineup will take you on a journey of inspiration; the event will bring visionaries, innovators, problem solvers, doers, funders, con...

About this event: Education City is home to the official undergraduate branch campuses of the following U.S colleges in Qatar: Virginia Commonwealth University, Weill Cornell Medical College, Texas A&M University, Carnegie Mellon University, Georgetown University, and Northwestern University. We hope to showcase how the presence of these institutions combined...

Author Jennifer 8. Lee explains how the chopstick spread from the East to the West -- and was designed to give you the perfect bite.

Americanization and globalization have basically been the same thing for the last several generations. But the US's view of the world -- and the world's view of the US -- is changing. In a fast-paced tour of the current state of international politics, Ian Bremmer discusses the challenges of a world where no single country or alliance can meet t...

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...

About this event: Tehran is the capital of Iran. With a population of around 8.8 million in the city and 15 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most populous city in Iran and Western Asia, and has the second-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East. It is ranked 29th in the world by the population of its metropolitan area....

Reporter Anthony Shadid died this week in Syria, in the midst of a distinguished career as a reporter in the Middle East, based in Beirut and Baghdad. In April 2011, he was a surprise speaker at TEDxOKC, in his hometown of Oklahoma City -- where he shared his hopes for a reimagined Middle East. Read notes from this talk on Heather Braun's...

We can all play a role in helping defuse even the most bitter conflicts. Veteran negotiator William Ury shares his hard-won insights. My passion in life is helping people and societies to move from no to yes. As a negotiator, mediator and cofounder of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard University, I’ve spent more than four decades traveling ...

About this event: We are thrilled to announce that our first conference will take place on 4th February 2017 in Menton, France. Our theme for this year's conference is #DaretoKnow. It will showcase a whole new world of ideas and experiences. During the last few years, we have witnessed an increasing divide between Europe and the Middle East, both culturally and...

About this event: TEDxBeirut is a full-day conference happening on Saturday, November 17th, 2012 with 16 speakers and 2 performers; curated from thought leaders in the Middle East and abroad, as well as grassroot speakers sharing their inspiring stories. TEDxBeirut includes breakfast, lunch, and a coffee-break. Furthermore, over 1,000 attendees will take part ...

About this event: As one of the leading educational institutions in the Middle East, the American School of Dubai inspires its students to adapt to the challenges of a rapidly changing world. The ideas shared at TEDxYouth@ASD 2018 will seek to expand on this message through the exploration of the conference theme, the Future You. Guided by three sub-themes (The...

Session 6 of TEDGlobal 2013 has a captivating title: "World on Its Head." Guest curated by Nassim Assefi and Gabriella Gómez-Mont -- both from the inaugural class of TEDGlobal 2009 Fellows -- the session will be a chance to turn our conceptions of the Middle East and Latin America upside down, and to rethink staid assumptions about politics, r...

During session breaks at TEDWomen, TEDx organizers in Washington, D.C. will connect live with some of the 115 TEDx events organized around the TEDWomen livestream to lead rich, thought-provoking conversations about the preceding session. Four Skype stations will dial into events in the following regions to bring in voices from the global TEDx co...

About this event: TEDxPSUT is a university TEDx event organized by Princess Sumaya University for Technology which will take place at the university itself at the Friendship Auditorium in the capital of Jordan "Amman" on the 17th of December, 2011. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDxPSUT is proud to present its event entitled “What is success?”, a full ...

With Microclinic International, Daniel Zoughbie is making health contagious, and believes that it’s critical to peace and stability in the Middle East. Microclinic International has a unique philosophy of “contagious health.” What does that mean? Common sense tells us that negative things like violence, smoking behaviors and unhealthy eating...

Award-winning Canadian photographer Ed Ou fell into photojournalism as a teenager, while studying political science in Jerusalem. Since then, he has blazed a trail of cinematic images covering the Egyptian revolution, the Somali Civil War, victims of radiation poisoning in the Soviet Union, and beyond, capturing moments of beauty and humanit...

"It’s about discarding assumptions about the Middle East, Latin America, and the way you think the world works," Nassim Assefi described in an interview before we all got to Edinburgh for TEDGlobal 2013. This session, which she co-curated with fellow TED Fellow Gabriella Gomez-Mont, features a host of speakers who'll be prompting us to think dif...

TIME Editor-at-Large Bobby Ghosh covers global affairs and the Middle East. For five years he served as the magazine's Baghdad bureau chief and, by the end of his tenure, was the longest serving print journalist in Iraq. Most recently Ghosh wrote a cover story on Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, arguably the most important man in the Middle...

Muslim women are needed as critical agents of change in this historical transformative moment in Islamic history and the Middle East. Yet it’s tough to be a Muslim woman these days. We’ve become symbols, not individuals. And that’s in no small part thanks to the global fixation on the headscarf. The west might ostensibly value individual iden...

On Monday, April 16, watch a session of TED streaming live to the world -- at TEDxSummit Opening Night. Curated by TEDGlobal's own Bruno Giussani, it's a two-hour session with TEDTalks favorites (Hans Rosling, Raghava KK) and vital voices from the Middle East. Watch this irreverent promo for TEDxSummit Opening Night >> Get the ful...

Creating characters and stories richly inspired by Arabic tradition, Suleiman Bakhit is fighting to change how the West sees Arab youth -- and how Arab youth see themselves -- one superhero at a time. You started producing comics after you got attacked after 9/11. What happened? I was a student at the University of Minnesota at the tim...

Turn it into a game, says technologist Esra’a Al Shafei. Thanks to features like a point system and a leaderboard, her small site for LGBTQ people in the Arab world is not only fun to use -- it’s free from harassers. Many LGBTQ people in the Middle East live under a cloud of stress and fear -- depending on where they live, they may face social ...

About this event: TEDxBradfordWomen: The Space Between will coincide with TEDxWomen 2012, turning the spotlight on the ideas of women and girls who challenge and redefine the traditional rules and roles ascribed to women and men, girls and boys. The theme for 2012 is The Space Between, how women are less likely to approach subjects from a black-or-white perspe...

  This spectacular satellite timelapse sequence shows the growth of Dubai over the past 10 years (while introducing the speakers at last weekend's TEDxDubai event). Producers METAphrenie took 3 months to produce the clip using imagery from Space Imaging Middle East and DigitalGlobe. As they note: The titles, together with the event, re...

In "Plutocrats," Chrystia Freeland explores the growing gap between the working poor and the increasingly disconnected mega-rich.

About this event: TEDXSILKROAD is a one day inspirational event, about Innovation, Creativity and Technology's impact on social innovation. It will have 15 speakers, and 200 guests, both invited and also from ticket sales. ___________________ The ancient Silk Road was a web of trading routes that began in China and linked the East to the West for over 2000 y...

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...