Brainwaves Video Anthology
Fernando M. Reimers - Teachers Make a Difference - Madame Chirick
Dr. Fernando Reimers is the Director, International Education Policy Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is the Ford Foundation Professor of the Practice of International Education and Director of both the Global Education...
Professor Dave Explains
Jimmy Carter: Successes and Failures Abroad (1977 – 1981)
Jimmy Carter was the last Democrat to win the South, given that he had served as Governor of Georgia. Most of the major events during his presidency were centered on foreign affairs, specifically the Middle East. Some went well, some not...
Financial Times
Iran's revolution — 40 years on
The FT's Middle East editor Andrew England reflects on the celebrations in Tehran of the 1979 Islamic revolution
Kult America
Tea's of Arabia
I'm a huge fan of tea and I'm a huge fan of travel so when I visited the middle east (Qatar) for the first time ever I thought it could be fun to try the assortment of tea on the street and hopefully meet some locals in the process. My...
TED Talks
Sakena Yacoobi: How I stopped the Taliban from shutting down my school
When the Taliban closed all the girls' schools in Afghanistan, Sakena Yacoobi set up new schools, in secret, educating thousands of women and men. In this fierce, funny talk, she tells the jaw-dropping story of two times when she was...
TED Talks
TED: A photographic journey through the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan | Kiana Hayeri
Exposing what life looks like in Afghanistan after a 20-year US occupation and the Taliban's stunning and rapid takeover, TED Fellow and documentary photographer Kiana Hayeri captures harrowing glimpses and multifaceted realities of a...
TED Talks
TED: What we don't know about Europe's Muslim kids | Deeyah Khan
As the child of an Afghan mother and Pakistani father raised in Norway, Deeyah Khan knows what it's like to be a young person stuck between your community and your country. In this powerful, emotional talk, the filmmaker unearths the...
TED Talks
Sheikha Al Mayassa: Globalizing the local, localizing the global
Sheikha Al Mayassa, a patron of artists, storytellers and filmmakers in Qatar, talks about how art and culture create a country's identity -- and allow every country to share its unique identity with the wider world. As she says: "We...
TED Talks
Laura Boushnak: For these women, reading is a daring act
In some parts of the world, half of the women lack basic reading and writing skills. The reasons vary, but in many cases, literacy isn't valued by fathers, husbands, even mothers. Photographer and TED Fellow Laura Boushnak traveled to...
TED Talks
TED: Iran and Israel: Peace is possible | Trita Parsi
Iran and Israel: two nations with tense relations that seem existentially at odds. But for all their antagonistic rhetoric, there is a recent hidden history of collaboration, even friendship. In an informative talk, Trita Parsi shows how...
TED Talks
TED: The danger and devotion of fighting for women in Afghanistan | Tamana Ayazi and Kat Craig
The women of Afghanistan are being persecuted under Taliban rule, but they're not standing down. Filmmaker Tamana Ayazi chronicles the harrowing reality of one women's rights advocate -- Zarifa Ghafari, Afghanistan's youngest female...
Curated Video
Asian Responses to Imperialism: Crash Course World History
In which John Green teaches you about Imperialism, but not from the perspective of the colonizers. This week John looks at some Asian perspectives on Imperialism, specifically writers from countries that were colonized by European...
National Geographic
Protecting Ancient Artifacts | Explorer
Inigo Gilmore visits the local museum, where the relics are locked away, and learns the items are likely from the Middle East, possibly from ISIS held territory. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ Get More Explorer:...
National Geographic
Stolen Mummy's Left Hand Found and Returned to Egypt | National Geographic
A mummy hand destined for a Hollywood prop shop isn't what U.S. Customs Agents usually come across, but this time was a bit different. Stolen by looters, the left hand of a nearly 3,000 year old mummy will join four other ancient...
National Geographic
Protecting Ancient Artifacts | Explorer
Inigo Gilmore visits the local museum, where the relics are locked away, and learns the items are likely from the Middle East, possibly from ISIS held territory. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ Get More Explorer:...
National Geographic
Mysterious Green Sea Turtles in the Persian Gulf Tracked By Scientists | National Geographic
Green turtles in the Middle East are one of the world’s least understood turtle populations. An international team of researchers is wrangling dozens of turtles, rodeo-style, to learn more about their migration routes and locations of...
TED Talks
TED: A Saudi woman who dared to drive | Manal al-Sharif
There's no actual law against women driving in Saudi Arabia. But it's forbidden. Two years ago, Manal al-Sharif decided to encourage women to drive by doing so -- and filming herself for YouTube. Hear her story of what happened next.
Ancient Lights Media
Atlas of the United States: The Middle Atlantic Region - District of Columbia
This clip explores the geography, history, and some important cultural features of the District of Columbia.
TED Talks
TED: Did you hear the one about the Iranian-American? | Maz Jobrani
A founding member of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour, standup comic Maz Jobrani riffs on the challenges and conflicts of being Iranian-American -- "like, part of me thinks I should have a nuclear program; the other part thinks I can't be...
TED Talks
TED: How megacities are changing the map of the world | Parag Khanna
I want you to reimagine how life is organized on earth, says global strategist Parag Khanna. As our expanding cities grow ever more connected through transportation, energy and communications networks, we evolve from geography to what he...
TED Talks
TED: Did the global response to 9/11 make us safer? | Benedetta Berti
If we want sustainable, long-term security to be the norm in the world, it's time to radically rethink how we can achieve it, says TED Fellow and conflict researcher Benedetta Berti. In an eye-opening talk, Berti explains how building a...
TED Talks
TED: We can fight terror without sacrificing our rights | Rebecca MacKinnon
Can we fight terror without destroying democracy? Internet freedom activist Rebecca MacKinnon thinks that we'll lose the battle against extremism and demagoguery if we censor the internet and press. In this critical talk, she calls for a...
Economics Explained
The "Evolving" Economy of Kazakhstan | Economics Explained
This is Kazakhstan, and yes I know what you are all thinking, and yes in the interest of full disclosure we are definitely cashing in on the hype surrounding the second borat, but in fairness so is the nation itself. Even still this...