Regeneration: The speakers in Session 7 at TEDGlobal 2013
Session 7, “Regeneration,” couldn’t come at a better time; it’s the end of the second day of TEDGlobal 2013, and we ...
Art as an agent for social change: Tania Bruguera at TEDGlobal 2013
Tania Bruguera grew up in Cuba, where she was surrounded by the contradictions between propaganda and reality from an early age. She has cha...
What I learned from Latin America: Juan Pardinas at TEDGlobal 2013
Twenty years ago, economic policy expert Juan Pardinas took a road trip through a continent that no longer exists: Latin America. He set out...
Singing the forbidden: Dina El Wedidi at TEDGlobal 2013
Dina El Wedidi is a traditional Egyptian singer — but with a global twist. While her powerful chant draws from Egyptian folk songs, he...
Living in the dead zone of Chernobyl: Holly Morris at TEDGlobal 2013
Holly Morris tells the stories of women through documentary, television, print and the web. One story she certainly didn’t expect stem...
The city of the future, learning from scarcity: Teddy Cruz at TEDGlobal 2013
As urban areas have exploded, a dramatic stratification is taking place. While some parts of cities have become playgrounds for the privileg...
The doubt essential to faith: Lesley Hazleton at TEDGlobal 2013
A few years ago, Lesley Hazleton, self-described “accidental theologist,” found herself waking each morning with the same question: What hap...
Making peace is a marathon: May El-Khalil at TEDGlobal 2013
The founder of the Beirut Marathon, May El-Khalil tells us how personal tragedy led her to create a peaceful haven in her all-too-often war-...
Enmity is not inevitable: Trita Parsi at TEDGlobal 2013
Today on the TEDGlobal stage, two days before election in Iran, political scientist Trita Parsi argues that the Israeli-Iranian conflict is ...