TED Talks
TED: How we can bring mental health support to refugees | Essam Daod
The global refugee crisis is a mental health catastrophe, leaving millions in need of psychological support to overcome the traumas of dislocation and conflict. To undo the damage, child psychiatrist and TED Fellow Essam Daod has been...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: A brief history of Spanish | Ilan Stavans
Beginning in the third century BCE, the Romans conquered the Iberian peninsula. This period gave rise to several regional languages in the area that's now Spain, including Castilian, Catalan, and Galician. One of these would become...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The rise and fall of the medieval Islamic Empire | Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen
In the 7th century CE, the prophet Muhammad united the people of the Arabian Peninsula through the formation of Islam. Over the next 30 years, caliphs conquered vast areas beyond Arabia, including their mighty neighbors the Persians and...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: To Make Use of Water by Safia Elhillo
An animated interpretation of Safia Elhillo's poem "To Make Use of Water"
TED Talks
Bahia Shehab: A thousand times no
Art historian Bahia Shehab has long been fascinated with the Arabic script for 'no.' When revolution swept through Egypt in 2011, she began spraying the image in the streets saying no to dictators, no to military rule and no to violence.
TED Talks
Terry Moore: Why is 'x' the unknown?
Why is 'x' the symbol for an unknown? In this short and funny talk, Terry Moore gives the surprising answer.
TED Talks
Patricia Ryan: Don't insist on English!
Patricia Ryan is a longtime English teacher who asks a provocative question: Is the world's focus on English preventing the spread of great ideas in other languages? In other words: What if Einstein had to pass the TOEFL? It's a...
TED Talks
TED: The unexpected challenges of a country's first election | Philippa Neave
How do you teach an entire country how to vote when no one has done it before? It's a huge challenge facing fledgling democracies around the world -- and one of the biggest problems turns out to be a lack of shared language. After all,...
TED Talks
TED: How I'm using LEGO to teach Arabic | Ghada Wali
After a visit to a European library in search of Arabic and Middle Eastern texts turned up only titles about fear, terrorism and destruction, Ghada Wali resolved to represent her culture in a fun, accessible way. The result: a colorful,...
TED Talks
Lesley Hazleton: On reading the Koran
Lesley Hazleton sat down one day to read the Koran. And what she found -- as a non-Muslim, a self-identified "tourist" in the Islamic holy book -- wasn't what she expected. With serious scholarship and warm humor, Hazleton shares the...
Crash Course
The Medieval Islamicate World: Crash Course History of Science
The religion of Islam significantly influenced knowledge-making in the greater Mediterranean and western Asian world. Islamicate scholars—meaning people influenced by Islamic civilization, regardless of their religious views—gave us...
MinuteEarth
The Place Where Time Flows Backwards
People all around the world tend to represent time via space, but there’s no consensus on which way time goes.
TED Talks
eL Seed: Street art with a message of hope and peace
What does this gorgeous street art say? It's Arabic poetry, inspired by bold graffiti and placed where a message of hope and peace can do the most good. In this quietly passionate talk, artist and TED Fellow eL Seed describes his...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The hidden treasures of Timbuktu | Elizabeth Cox
On the edge of the vast Sahara desert, citizens snuck out of the city of Timbuktu and took to the wilderness. They buried chests in the desert sand, hid them in caves, and sealed them in secret rooms. Inside these chests was a treasure...
Curated Video
The Dark Ages...How Dark Were They, Really?: Crash Course World History
John Green teaches you about the so-called Dark Ages, which it turns out weren't as uniformly dark as you may have been led to believe. While Europe was indeed having some issues, many other parts of the world were thriving and...
Crash Course
The Dark Ages...How Dark Were They, Really Crash Course World History
John Green teaches you about the so-called Dark Ages, which it turns out weren't as uniformly dark as you may have been led to believe. While Europe was indeed having some issues, many other parts of the world were thriving and...
The Guardian
The Joy and Judgement of Being Out and Proud in Lebanon
The Lebanese band Mashrou' Leila, has long been celebrated and condemned for being unabashedly queer and influencing discussions about queer representation in the Middle East. This video features members of the band and Tarek Ziedan, the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Laila Taik - Teaching Arabic in America
Laila Taik is an English teacher from Morocco working on sustainable development goals both with her students and her global colleagues. In this video, she shares her experience teaching Arabic to American students at Brooklyn, New York....
All Ears English
2091 - Trust Your Brain for Better Language Learning with Steve Kaufmann
What do polyglots know that you don't? Today, Lindsay interviewed Steve Kaufmann, also known as LingoSteve, who has learned 20 languages. He tells us why we need to trust our brains when it comes to learning languages and how to set up...
All Ears English
1963 - Lessons from a Sesame Street Star: Ammar Sabban
Do you want to connect to successful, creative people? Today you'll learn 3 questions to ask creatives, and you'll get inspired by Ammar Sabban, who was on Sesame Street in Saudi Arabia, among many other amazing achievements!
All Ears English
2001 - The Number One Reason Your English Classes Are Not Working
In today's episode, Lindsay shares how she ended up in a vicious cycle with her Arabic learning and how she can turn it into a virtuous cycle, and how you can turn this insight into power when it comes to learning English.
Curated Video
Arab-Greek Bilingualism
Historian Maria Mavroudi (UC Berkeley) reveals how a careful study of Arab-Greek bilingualism can shed important light on a wealth of societal values, including the very foundations of their systems of knowledge.
Señor Jordan
Spanish Present Subjunctive with Ojalá (O)
*Please excuse my Arabic pronunciation if it is not "on point". I had Google Translate pronounce it for me and did my best to follow that. *This video was a lot of fun to make and I hope you enjoy it and find it educational. In addition,...
Religion for Breakfast
The Origin of the Quran’s Name for Jesus
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