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Episodes
Tajdeed- Bringing Contemporary Arabic Stories To America
03 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.04.06 In 2016, American literary magazine The Common published a special issue devoted to contemporary Arabic fiction. Co-edited by the journal'...
Innovation And Aviation In The UAE
03 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.04.04 An efficient and productive aviation sector can be a strong driver of economic growth. In order to support the development of the sector, ...
The Falcon Genome Project Diversity, Population Structure And Local Adaptation
03 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.03.29 The Falcon Genome Project commenced in 2010 and resulted in de novo genome assemblies for the peregrine and saker falcons in 2013, which h...
The Politics Of Islamic Militancy
03 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.03.27 Since the 1920s the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has promoted the formal interpretation of Islam in the Kingdom, commonly referred to as Salafi...
Workforce Needs, Security Imperatives: The Liberal Arts in the 21st Century
03 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.03.15 Universities are proliferating around the world to meet the growing demand for graduates equipped with work-ready skills, and for research...
Muslim Millennials Today Identity And Religion
03 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.03.12 The Arab world’s experience over the last two years has cast more light on questions of religion, religious leadership and religious lif...
Obtaining Legal Personhood For Nonhuman Animals
03 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.03.07 World-renowned animal rights attorney Steven Wise talks about his ground-breaking efforts to win legal personhood status for highly intel...
Philosophy in the Islamic World Without Any Gaps
24 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.02.28 In a series of podcasts, now published as a book, Peter Adamson attempts to tell the story of philosophy in the Islamic world "without any...
Muhammad Ali Said Veteran of the American Civil War
24 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.02.26 Muhammad Ali Sa'id was born in West Africa, the son of a leading general in the African state of Borno. Enslaved as a teenager and taken ...
How We Find (or Don't Find) Things
24 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.02.20 We cannot simultaneously recognize every object in our field of view. As a result, we deploy attention from object to object or place to p...
Grid Cells and The Brains Map of Space
24 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.02.07 The entorhinal cortex and the hippocampus are elements of the brain’s circuit for spatial navigation and memory. This talk demonstrates ...
Perception Where Past and Future Meet
24 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.02.13 We take our perception as truth. But what ends up in our mindscape is far from veridical. We are fooled in many ways. We believe our perce...
The Sociopolitical Import of Recreational Genetics
24 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.02.05 DNA is a master key that unlocks medical and forensic secrets, but its genealogical life is also revelatory. Tracing genealogy is now the ...
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26 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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The Story of Reason in Islam
20 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2016.12.06 The Story of Reason in Islam narrates a sweeping intellectual history—a quest for knowledge inspired by the Qu'ran and its language, a q...
Salam Neighbor
20 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2016.12.08 What is it like to live in a refugee camp? Two American filmmakers head to Jordan’s largest refugee camp, just seven miles from the Syri...
Serving the God of Justice and Mercy- Muslim and Christian Perspectives
20 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.01.11 Islam and Christianity share the vision of being universal and missionary religions, both about equally strong in number of followers. Focu...
Is Most Published Medical Research Really False
20 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.01.24 The accuracy of published research is critical for scientists, physicians, and patients who rely on these results. However, the fundamental...
JaneGoodall seeds of hope
20 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.01.14 Jane Goodall blends her experience in nature with her enthusiasm to give the audience a deeper understanding of the world around us. Speak...
Travelling to The Land of The Zanj
20 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.01.26 The coast of Zanj was fabled as an exotic land, full of wild animals, curious peoples, and precious commodities such as ivory and gold. Bas...
Order and Disorder: A Precarious Balancing Act
20 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.01.29 Is chaos the law of nature and order the dream of man, as Henry Adams once put it? Is "chance" just a name for our ignorance? This lecture ...
Shipwrecks, Replicas and "Dhows:" Experimental Maritime Archaeology in the Indian Ocean
13 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2016.11.28 The development of the ship, or the dhow as is it is commonly referred to in Anglophone literature, played an essential role in the expans...
Global Warming: Environment, Arts, Legislation and Research
17 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2016.11.19 This panel explores issues of global warming and rising water levels, in connection with the research and artistic movements that have emer...
The Archaeology of the Sasanian and early Islamic Periods in Eastern Arabia
17 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2016.11.20 This lecture reviews the archaeological evidence for the Sasanian to early Islamic periods (c 3rd/4th to 9th centuries) in the region, focu...
One Writer's Trip: From the Garden to the Plate and the Beyond
10 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2016.11.17 In this autobiographical talk, Michael Pollan tells the story of the path his thinking and writing have taken since he first planted a vege...
Language Technologies for Arabic and its Dialects
10 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2016.11.15 Human language technologies—from document search, to machine translation and question answering—have become an increasingly important p...
Architecture Without Architects
08 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2016.10.16 This year’s iteration of the Venice Architecture Biennale set its aim at highlighting the social consciousness of architecture. By shifti...
The Art of Outer Space in the Information Age
08 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2016.10.26 This conversation explores art and technology in the context of the NYUAD Art Gallery exhibition "Invisible Threads: Technology and its Di...
Cultural Connections of Mleiha (3rd Century BCE to 3rd Century CE)
12 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
2016.10.09 Mleiha is considered one of the most important sites in the Arabian Peninsula, standing out from any other site in the United Arab Emirates...
The 2016 Presidential Election in Global Perspective
12 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
2016.10.05 The US Presidential Election is less than two months away. As the race heats up, people around the world are anxious to know the implicati...
Artist Talk: Invisible Threads
12 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
2016.09.24 This talk inaugurates the Art Gallery's fall exhibition, Invisible Threads: Technology and its Discontents. Among other themes of the exhib...
A Post Mortem of the African Revolution: Rethinking the Global Sixties
12 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
2016.09.20 If the Global Sixties were marked by the spirit of freedom and the politics of revolt, where does Africa fit into the chronology? The conti...
Abdullah
12 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
2016.09.27 Growing up in a very conservative family where many things are "haram" (forbidden in Islam), Abdullah struggles over the years to hide hi...
Sundance: A Global Platform for the Worlds Storytellers
12 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
2016.09.18 This panel explores the Sundance Institute Theatre Program’s innovative playwright initiatives in East Africa, as well as its new and ex...