TEDxRamallah - Sam Bahour سام بحّور - Refugees Waiting
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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 in the establishment of the Palestine Telecommunica... Read more
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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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- -: TEDxDoiSuthep - James Robert Fuller - Photojournalism and Finding My Way Home
August 2, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)James Robert Fuller is a British photojournalist based in Thailand. His work is focused on the long-term consequences of conflict and disaster, often examining the themes of home and dislocation. His ongoing projects document the resettlement of refugees from Burma to the USA, the armed oppositio...
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- -: TEDx Vancouver - Jose Figueroa - The T-Word
December 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Figueroa, who has been in Canada since 1997, was once a youth member of the University Student Union that was supportive of the FMLN political wing in El Salvador, which has recently been categorized as a "terrorist" organization. Fleeing El Salvador with his wife, Jose was a peaceful student hav...
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- -: TEDxEastEnd - Helen Bamber - Borders of the mind
October 14, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Helen Bamber OBE has worked tirelessly in the human rights field for over 60 years helping thousands of survivors of human rights violations worldwide. She began working with survivors in the former concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen after WWII. Helen joined Amnesty International shortly after it...
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- -: Authors@Google: Mike Kim
June 30, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Mike Kim visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the Worlds Most Repressive Country." This event took place on June 26, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series. The first of its kind, this book provides a rare and unique i...
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- -: Mia Kirshner on the Lives of Refugees
December 22, 2008 (over 15 years ago)http://bit.ly/iUlmk1 - Mia Kirshner talks about working on I Live Here, a book about internationally displaced peoples.
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- -: TEDxCanberra - Emma Davidson - Learning to listen
October 23, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Emma Davidson works with women in refugee and indigenous communities on understanding their perceptions of need and the language they use to describe them. In this short talk at TEDxCanberra 2011, Emma discusses the need to listen to the women she works with and to understand their iss...
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- -: TEDxBrisbane 2011 - Andrew Bartlett - Hope
November 10, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Andrew Bartlett has lived his entire life in Brisbane, currently living in the suburb of Windsor. He has enormous experience in the political arena, having represented Queensland as a Democrats Senator in the Australian Parliament from 1997 to 2008.
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- -: Ishmael Beah - Excerpt from "A Long Way Gone"
March 12, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=728 Author and Sierra Leone war refugee Ishmael Beah reads an excerpt from his book, "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier." ----- Ishmael Beah introduces "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier." You will never forget Ishmael Be...
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- -: Dinaw Mengestu - "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears"
March 30, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=784 Ethiopian-born author Dinaw Mengestu reads an excerpt from his novel, "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears." ----- Dinaw Mengestu talks about "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears." Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, and im...
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