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Episodes
Maysson Zayed Laughing At Life
07 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
09/12/2017 Comedian, writer, actress, tap dancer, and disability advocate Maysoon Zayid tells a humorous tale of beating the odds and laughing in the ...
SESAME: A Source of Light in the Middle East
23 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
10/23/2017 In everyday life individuals learn by ‘seeing’ things using light; the same is true in science. The extraordinary power of synchrotron...
A World Free Of Nuclear Weapons
23 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
10/3/2017 This lecture underlines the special character of nuclear weapons and discusses the desirability and the feasibility of a nuclear-weapon-fre...
“Behind the Lynchings:” Uncovering Racial Violence in the U.S. South, 1930-1954
23 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
11/6/2017 Racial violence, perpetrated by law enforcement or private citizens, has re-emerged as a potent social and political issue in the United St...
The Human Journey
23 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
10/16/2017 Anthropologist, geneticist, author, and entrepreneur Spencer Wells discusses his work using genetics to track human movement patterns arou...
Do You Trust Your Chip
23 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
10/18/2017 Ubiquity of electronic devices—mostly smart ones with electronic chips embedded in them—is attributed to the desire to improve the qua...
Dokha as An Emerging Epidemic: What Can We Learn from Global Tobacco Control?
23 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
11/5/2017 Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death, on trajectory to cause 1 billion deaths this century. A particularly alarming trend ...
Maysson Zayed Laughing At Life
08 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.09.12 Comedian, writer, actress, tap dancer, and disability advocate Maysoon Zayid tells a humorous tale of beating the odds and laughing in the...
Robert Swan: Leadership on the Edge
16 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
October 1, 2017 Presented by Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots program, Robert Swan, OBE, one of the world’s greatest explorers, is the first person in...
The Nature of the Law in the UAE: Is the UAE a Civil Law Jurisdiction?
16 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
September 26, 2017 Legal practitioners often describe the United Arab Emirates as a "civil law" jurisdiction. But is that description accurate? The U...
Peaceland : Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention
16 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
September 13, 2017 This lecture suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions so often fail to reach their full potential. Bas...
A Conversation in Memory of Hilary Ballon: The founding of NYU Abu Dhabi
16 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
October 8, 2017 In 2007 an agreement was reached between the leadership of New York University and the government of Abu Dhabi to create a cutting ed...
Islam and Evolution: Was Darwin Right and Why Should Muslims Care?
16 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
September 17, 2017 In this public lecture, Abouheif will address a number of controversial questions and explore if an understanding or appreciation ...
What On Earth Are Animals Saying?
16 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
September 19, 2017 Award winning author and journalist, Charles Siebert, talks of his many experiences visiting with, and writing about, non-human an...
Trump, Twitter, Circulation American Politics As Global Entertainment
28 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.09.11 The global circulation of Donald Trump’s political rhetoric during the presidential campaign of 2015-16 produced international dismay, ...
Exit West: A Conversation with Novelist Mohsin Hamid
17 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
September 5, 2017 Internationally acclaimed novelist Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Harcourt, 2007) and How to Get Filthy Rich...
Expressive Communication Technologies for People with ALS
10 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
April 20, 2017 ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) is a degenerative neuromuscular disease; people with late-stage ALS typically retain cognitive fun...
Histories of Imagining Urban Futures in Central Africa
10 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
April 25, 2017 Starting from ‘The Tower. A Concrete Utopia’ (2015), a video-installation made by Congolese photographer Sammy Baloji and Belgian ...
Religion or Science How Early Muslim Thinkers Understood the Hidden Worlds
10 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
May 1, 2017 The premodern Muslim thinkers who undertook the task of surveying the entirety of the human experience attempted to account for not only ...
Research Using a Little Fish for Solving Big Health Problems
10 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
May 3, 2017 Diabetes. Obesity. Cancer. Chronic diseases are taking their toll on the world’s population, and their threat is rising. The instinct t...
Narrating Palestine: A Conversation with Rashid Khalidi and Ismail Khalidi
25 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
April 27, 2017 How can Palestinians most effectively represent their past and present to Western and Arab audiences? This event brings the scholar Ra...
The Xtransients Extreme Phenomena In The High Energy Universe
09 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.04.12 What are the most luminous explosions in space? What objects possess the strongest magnetic fields in nature?How can we hear the sirens of...
Are Animal Rights Islamic
09 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.04.09 In recent years, worldwide attention to the protection of animals has risen dramatically. Unlike the global movement for human rights, the...
What Might It Mean For Security To Be Sustainable
09 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.04.03 This lecture is the keynote address for ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS) 2017 People talk about wha...
Letters To A Young Muslim
09 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.03.09 In a series of personal letters to his son, Omar Saif Ghobash offers a short and highly readable manifesto that tackles our current global...
What On Earth Is A Citizen Of The World
03 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
2017.04.11 In the 4th century BCE, Diogenes of Sinope claimed that the whole world was his hometown. Since then, that idea has influenced hundreds ...
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...