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- -: TEDxRamallah - Sam Bahour سام بحّور - Refugees Waiting

July 6, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)

Sam Bahour is a Palestinian-American based in Al-Bireh/Ramallah, Palestine. He is a freelance business consultant operating as Applied Information Management (AIM), specializing in business development with a niche focus on the information technology sector and start-ups. Sam was instrumental i...

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- -: TEDxYaleWorldFellows - Gidon Bromberg - Water, Peace and the Arab Spring

July 21, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)

In 1994, Yale World Fellow Gidon Bromberg co-founded EcoPeace, a unique regional organization that brings together Jordanian, Palestinian, and Israeli environmentalists to promote sustainable development and advance peace efforts in the troubled Middle East, and in 1997 led the entry of the organ...

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- -: Wadah Khanfar: A historic moment in the Arab world

March 5, 2011 (about 13 years ago)

http://www.ted.com As a democratic revolution led by tech-empowered young people sweeps the Arab world, Wadah Khanfar, the head of Al Jazeera, shares a profoundly optimistic view of what's happening in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and beyond -- at this powerful moment when people realized they could ste...

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- -: Wael Ghonim: Inside the Egyptian revolution

March 5, 2011 (about 13 years ago)

http://www.ted.com Wael Ghonim is the Google executive who helped jumpstart Egypt's democratic revolution ... with a Facebook page memorializing a victim of the regime's violence. Speaking at TEDxCairo, he tells the inside story of the past two months, when everyday Egyptians showed that "the pow...

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- -: Sam Richards: A radical experiment in empathy

April 19, 2011 (about 13 years ago)

http://www.ted.com By leading the Americans in his audience at TEDxPSU step by step through the thought process, sociologist Sam Richards sets an extraordinary challenge: can they understand -- not approve of, but understand -- the motivations of an Iraqi insurgent? And by extension, can anyone t...

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