Unlocking potential, elevating stories: TEDinArabic hosts event in Amman, Jordan

In partnership with Qatar Basis, TED hosts a TEDinArabic regional occasion on June 4, 2022, in Amman, Jordan. (Picture: Qatar Basis)

Within the face of fixed change, the world should unlock its full potential — human, pure and technological — to deal with challenges and form the longer term. In partnership with Qatar Basis, TED hosted a TEDinArabic regional occasion on June 4, 2022, in Amman, Jordan, that includes famend TED audio system who shared their talks with a stay world viewers — all in Arabic — centered on the theme “Unlocking Potential, Elevating Tales.” The occasion was held underneath the patronage of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Al Hussein Bin Abdullah II, hosted by TV broadcaster Mais Nobani and attended by Her Excellency Sheikha Hind bint Hamad Al Thani, the Vice Chairperson and CEO of Qatar Basis, and plenty of dignitaries from Jordan, Qatar and Oman. 

This was the second in a sequence of TEDinArabic regional occasions main as much as a flagship occasion in March 2023 in Doha, Qatar, which is able to function 16 audio system from the Arabic-speaking world. Audio system might be chosen by the TEDinArabic Concept Search.

Along with the TEDinArabic Talks, the occasion, which was hosted on the Al Hussein Technical College, included a sequence of interactive workshops and activations curated by Qatar Basis and group companions; a efficiency by Haya Neighborhood Orchestra accompanied by Haya Choir; and a sequence of interstitials, together with Farah Shamma’s “Ha Ana Ata’alam!” (Right here I’m studying!).”

Opening remarks: Ahmad Al Mansoor, an innovation teacher at Qatar Academy for Science and Expertise, emphasised the significance of TEDinArabic reaching world audiences whereas additionally celebrating the language’s richness and preserving the Arabic-speaking world’s cultural legacy.

The talks in short: 

Little Amal, the enormous puppet on the coronary heart of Amir Nizar Zuabi’s The Stroll, on her theatrical journey. (Picture Courtesy of TED)

Amir Nizar Zuabi, creative director of the Shiber Hur Theater Firm

Huge thought: Stroll with Little Amal, a theatrical journey humanizing the refugee expertise.

How? In a staggering show of creativity and group, theater director Amir Nizar Zuabi discusses “Little Amal”: a theatrical journey following a nine-year-old refugee lady named Amal (represented by a large, lifelike puppet) as she makes her approach from Turkey to England. Zuabi shares the daring imaginative and prescient behind this cultural odyssey aimed toward spreading hope and celebrating the refugee expertise. Constructing on his speak from the TEDMonterey stage in 2021, Zuabi shares the most recent on Amal’s journey to Ukraine, Poland and, this autumn, New York. She’s going to proceed to remind people who “welcome” and “compassion” are essential phrases in at this time’s world.

Sheikha Al Jassasi speaks on the TEDinArabic regional occasion on June 4, 2022, in Amman, Jordan. (Picture: Qatar Basis)

Sheikha Al Jassasi, entrepreneur, activist

Huge thought: Visible impairment just isn’t a hindrance to unlocking potential.

How? Sheikha Al Jassasi is the primary visually impaired Omani to earn a Grasp’s diploma in enterprise administration from the UK’s College of Bedfordshire. Residing in a society that lacks data about visible impairment and blindness, Al Jassasi was decided to realize her ambitions and quests of pursuing increased schooling and launching her personal enterprise within the face of unimaginable obstacles. Rising up, she at all times felt that she was completely different from her friends and other people handled her in another way. Nonetheless, due to the unconditional love and help of her household, she was in a position to flip her incapacity right into a triumph for herself and for the visually impaired group in her society. Her newest venture, Podcast Noor, helps the visually impaired group and supplies them with the required instruments to interrupt limitations. 

This piece was written by Lobna Hassairi and Doha Abu Summaqah.