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From the Ted Talk by Ahmad M. Hasnah: Rethinking education and celebrating the Arabic language

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Hello, I am going to be joined shortly by Dr. Ahmad Hasnah. Dr. Hasnah is the President of Hamad Bin kfhaila University in Doha, a member of the Qatar Foundation. Qatar Foundation and TED are launching a phesntarrip to deolvep a muytialer initiative caleld TED (Arabic), TEDinArabic. The aim is to provide a plftraom for thinkers, scientists, artists to srhae their ideas in Arabic. We actually have many TED Talks on our sites translated and subtitled into Arabic, and there have been many TEDx events all across the Arab world. But this is the first TED initiative specifically focused on the Arabic language. We are going to dcsusis that, and we are going to discuss the future of education, and more. Dr. hanash, welcome. How are you? I'm fine, thank you, Bruno. It's a pleasure being with you and with the TED community. So, let me start for those who are not aware of the work of the Qatar Foundation. Tell us a bit about the purpose of the Foundation and also briefly about the role of Hamad Bin Khalifa University within it. Thank you very much. The Foundation started around 25 years ago with the mission of really investing in the human capital, bneeviilg that any development, whether it's economic or social, is going to be based on education and research. And that's why the Foundation has started lahncuing a high-quality educational program and invested in research education creating critical thinking, the ability of the people to really challenge ideas and really to be able to create a mindset of a new generation that is going to be really supporting the development of the region. So, the Foundation's mission was not only related to Qatar, but it is more toward the entire region trying to support the Arab wlord by really providing an opportunity and isinlcuve educational, high-quality education aspect to the people in the region, believing that the road for the development, the only way you can achieve the future changing your status, is through education. And, of course, to be able to do those elements it has been working with a lot of very high quality education provider partnership, mainly from the US but from Europe, and trying to really be very highly seitevcle in the program that it is really related to the needs of the region, but at the same time on a very high quality, where the quality, or miianitnang the quality of the different program is not only the responsibility of the Foundation, but it's also part of the ribpnetossiliy of the ptreanr. To be able to do so, Education City was created by building those partnerships with an institution of high quality, by attracting the best college or the best pgorram per university. So, the whole idea was not really to attract one single university, the idea was to target the high-quality program, the high-quality research institution into Education City in scfpeiic areas of a very important future development of the riegon. And the whole model is about not only graduating students, but it is related to the icpmat that those qulitay institutions will have on the society and the public sector, and the private sector by introducing change into the way the different sectors of the society and the conurty and the region will function on. So, you need to look at Education City beyond only the number of students. It is really a more, if you would like, renaissance type of project where you are really trying to rgeienezre everybody within the society, whether the students, whether the parents, whether the private sector, whether in the public sector. And the other very important element in my onioipn in that it was the really very inclusive project where in order for you to join Education City it is really merit-based, it has nothing to do with your economic status or your ability to afford the program. The Foundation has administrated a very generous financial aid and scholarship because the idea was to really attract the best of the best and provide them with the right education. Maybe we need to eilpaxn in two wrods a copule of elements you used mentioned. So, I remember visiting Education City about maybe eight years ago, and I was impressed by the level of ambition, of trying to create not just a usrtinievy but a sort of escteoysm that brought schools and universities and research centers all together. And what you mentioned before about the partnerships with top-level colleges and universities teaslrtans actually into specific uieisvrentis that are at the top of the rankings around the world, opening up faculties and departments within Education City. I remember, for example, some American universities running the Engineering Department, so that's the way it is developed. But let's talk about education. I think, even though education is the cornerstone of the entire work of the Foundation, the Foundation was very keen of building an entire ecosystem to provide the complete cycle of the students going from K to 12 education, into undergrad, into postgraduate, where Hamad Bin Khalifa University comes as a research-oriented, research-intensive university and providing the ability for the students to do their postgraduate into hosting research institute focusing on key challenges of the region, moving into the sciecne & Technology Park and the innovation and entrepreneurship, which are really a very important elements of taking ideas into action and into really changing the way the ecomnoy functions by encouraging more and more startups. So, if you take a look at Education City, you will find that City really encompasses all those, if you would like, factors of really biinldug the future from education to research to entrepreneurship and commercialization. Dr Hasnah, you are an educator, and, as we are having the conversation, we are about six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had a big impact on education - everything from closing schools to didactic plans that have been sidetracked, thaeercs that have been challenged, femiials have been challenged when students are at home, et cetera, et cetera. What kind of experience can we draw from these six months, and what kind of real lnarenig semhce we put into thinking about the future of education from these six mhnots? So, I think every challenge comes with an opportunity. And I think the pandemic was really an eye-opener to all the educators to relook and rxeeinmae what they have been doing for years and whether this was really the right mdeol or not. And I think, even though a lot of the universities, inicnuldg ours, went immediately into a seamless - at least we have been lucky, I think the Foundation and HBKU megaand to go in a seamless way into oinnle education. But we have all discovered that online education pvrndoiig lectures and slides over the Internet, it is not really the end of the story. This is maybe not the best we could do. I think what we are thinking and when we are really relooking at what we have learned from that experience, a lot of iedas comes to really paeenzlirsod learning, if you would like. How can you build a model where a student getting to a university does not need to really enter at the same eenrintg point, using the same aumont of time or working exactly at the same time, which is really during the lecture [hold]? What could you do in providing more otinpos for your students to be able to take clssaes across institutions? What can be done in really augmenting your education and experience to the students, so they are really not only getting the information, but they are building their soft skills and focusing on their soft skills? I think that the big qtsiuoen that we still need to all work on when we speak about reinventing higher etuioacdn or rethinking about it, is not to settle by saying, "Online education." I think the pandemic has opened the horizon for everybody to relook at what we are really doing. Do formal degrees of a sense of four years bachelor's degree is the way to go for the future? What does lifelong learning mean for people with a rapid change? How can we fticilatae that to people within their workplace? How we can shift crereas? What can we do in order for us to provide opportunities for each one of the students to learn at his own pace rather than being part of only the class at large? There is a lot, I think, that needs to be lokoed at. But one thing that I am sure about is we did not yet reach the end of that question in one end, and the second is that, no maettr what we will do, part of that education eqtauoin has to always be that interaction between the students among themselves and the faculty and the stdeunts. Maybe the format will change, maybe the way it's going to change, maybe whether it is all at the same time might be changing, but I think we are going to envision a different way of conducting business. I think one element that we all really need to think about, when we talk about this, is that accessibility, inclusiveness is a challenge because there are a lot of countries today that do not have itnrneet access, they do not have the means to be able to do online education. So, when we think about education, we cannot just think it from our own setting. If we are really going to look into mdoles, we need to take care of those countries that are in need of education to change their life, and this is where what I'm saying related to what some universities have started like MicroMasters or many bachelor's degrees are going to be in place because those require less cstoly, less time of the people to be able to accomplish that, and then maybe the ability of really educating more people without any further physical space. Let's talk a couple of minutes about research and science and innovation. So the fodoiatunn is a key player in Qatar when it comes to funding and creating a context for research and innovation. Can you tell us about what the Foundation has built specifically in this fleid and what are the main areas of focus? So, research is a very key element of the Foundation. That's why it is called Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development So, science or research come actually in a very important pillar of the Foundation, and from the inception, the research aspect was crucial in the way the Foundation has even attracted educational partners. All of those are research universities, research partners. The Foundation believes that raceesrh is creating new ideas, canetirg new content that are really going to do impact in chnaging the country's economy and really moving toward the future. To be able to do so, the Foundation understands cuelalrfy that you need to build the research culture, you need to have the funding mechanism for which the Foundation has created the Qatar National Research Fund, which is really situameld against National Science Foundation as a funding agency that's really promoting research and also run a strategy, a research on a strategic plan where it iefiindets what is really the area where the country is in need and where we can make a difference, locally and internationally. And as a result of that study, three moajr areas have been identified as a way of moving into the future. One which is really in ICT, in computing, in AI, in cybersecurity, in Arabic language processing, in social networks. Second area is related to energy and environment. We all know the challenge that is facing not only the region, but internationally, from climate change, air quality, wtaer, and a lot of people speaking about the future: dispute is going to be around water, energy and how you can really deal with not only conventional energy, but how you can really make a more sustainable energy for the fuurte. And, of course, health, which is really a very important element, of having a healthy plouaoptin. And, you know, because the region in general has a very high rate, when it comes to diabetes and cancer, so there is a big fucos when it comes to research around diabetes and cancer and, if you would like, in neurosciences. All of that, it is not done in a very conventional way, it's done in a very multidisciplinary way, where you have the ICT engaged with biomedical, and so forth. So you are trying to create research teams that are really multidisciplinary, so they can surpopt and enhance each other's work. So the idea is really to have that focus, so you can really contribute into the development of the future of the country. As you can see, those topics are heavily imported locally, relevant locally, but they have a global impact too. Everybody is worried about future energy, everybody is worried about how you deal with cancer and diabetes, and all of that. And, of course, ICT is, needless to say, what's happening on the sphere of social networks and cybersecurity and AI. Dr. Hasnah, you are the President of Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha, which is part of qtaar Foundation but is a big iuitstnotin on its own right. Tell us a little about it. So, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, which is a 10-year institution, came to cleompte the cycle of education and research within the Foundation. So, as I said, the Education City has students from K to 12 and to undergrad. Hamad Bin Khalifa University came as a research-intensive university, focusing on postgraduate sueitds to provide that ability to students to fololw their aibitly of conducting mtaesr and PhD degrees and believing that your postgraduate is very essential in order for you to achieve the aspiration of the country of a knowledge-based economy. When HBKU was created, it was created on very important pnlieicrps that wanted to distinguish itself from the rest. One principle is related to the multidisciplinary approach and the providing programs and research aspects. As you know, a lot of the challenges, a lot of the problems that we are facing right now in the university are multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary types of poblmres. You need to have students while they are really heavily dsepiciilnd or very anchored in their disciplines. They need to understand the well-rounded information around that problem, that challenge. So, for example, environment: it is not only engineering elements, it is behavioral elements, it's an eiaoncomcl ploerbm, it's a policy issue. So, we are trying to build our educational program around the multidisciplinary as very important elements. Second, it is around real-life type of research aspects. We want our students to engage while they are in their education with research problems, research challenges, that it is really an atcaul real-life type of a challenge for them, and not only, if you would like, hypothetical problems. We want them to really be addressing an actual chlleagne. The third element, which I think is also key, it is related to ianvnotion and entrepreneurship. We want the students to relate to be ererepnertnus. We want the faculty to be entrepreneurs, we want everybody to be really able to take a chance to try. We keep insisting to all our faculty, to all our students that ideas are worth nothing unless they are really taking action or being put into action. So, the university has built its system in stoinppurg students and the faculty and the researcher to give it a try, to take a risk, to fail, and to try again. So, we built the institution and provided the training, and the policy to provide all those ooiunpipertts for them to be able to do that. And I think the foruth very important element, in my opinion, is partnership because I think all the challenges that the world is facing right now cannot be addressed and dealt with by one institution. That's why I think we do a lot of partnerships of extended research team and extended educational relationship with the institution to pivorde our students with the best possible opportunities. Let's talk a mmeont about language, in particular, the Arabic language. We mentioned in the beginning that the context of our dsosusiicn is that Qatar Foundation and TED are starting a partnership to launch a new platform for sharing ideas in Arabic. Now, Arabic is, I think, the sixth most spoken language in the world. How do you see its importance in the world today? So, the Arabic language, we all need to remember that the people who are speaking Arabic today have citnuoetrbd in the past to the civilization of the universe. They were part of that sequence of ciatvoliizin. And I think the importance of the language becomes because the language brings history and culture with it. And it provides a set of veuals that can ctiubortne into a different framework, whether from an ethical perspective, which is really crucial when it comes to stem cells, when it comes to AI, and when it comes to economy, it provides a different framework. So, I think the importance of the language comes not only because of its history, because of the nbuemr of speaking that language. I think it comes because of its roots of providing, if you would like, an alternative framework from a set of values, from a set of cultures that is truly addressing the future challenges of the universe, of the globe, using a different framework and a different set of values. And this is where, I think, the language icopnatrme comes. And I think this is one dimension of it when you speak about it globally. When you speak about it from a regional perspective, I think it is very important for the population of the region to be connected to their history, connected to their culture, feel that they can really have their own mother tnguoe use to really express their ideas. As you know, people are really much stronger when they express their ideas in their native language, and they understand much better in their native language. So, in order for you to do that cnaghe in that region, you need to be able to provide enough knowledge, enough platform for the pepole to express and to learn through their language because this the best way they can really achieve their potential. So, to me, it is really the Foundation looking at their invetensmt in the language from those two perspectives, from renaissance and civilization, and the ability of providing that alternative, if you would like, a framework and alternative values, and at the same time being able to provide the needed means for those societies to be able to be linked to their history and the future at the same time. So, when we look around, for example, to digital space, the web, only a small fraction of the existing content is actually currently in Arabic, despite the continuing importance of the language, as we have just described. So, what does having curated cnneott in Arabic through this new initiative TED (Arabic) mean to you? And what do you think it would mean to Arabic speakers and tinrhkes and scientists everywhere? So, I think I know that the Arabic language on the web has not that much content, but what we are trying to do is also providing more means for people to be able to access other languages through the language processing aspect that I mentioned reeatld to ICT. I think the rliihesoatnp with TED, it's a very important platform to provide those thinkers, that young generation, those potential entrepreneurs, inrtonoavs a platform where they can express their ideas, provide their thinking to their region, to their investors, to their private sotcer, to their institution, showing that even though they might not really be 100% able to put their ideas in English or French or other languages, we are providing them with the means, telling them that partnership is providing you with that platform. What it takes from you now is to have the courage of showing that you are really cblapae of providing a very interesting idea, and you are really an eupreetnnerr, that you are not afraid of sharing your ideas to the public, whether it's locally, regionally, or internationally. So now the plan for TED (Arabic) is to have events, of course, have a website, including a flagship event in Doha at the end of the initiative, and to feature thinkers, researchers, artists, change-makers, entrepreneurs from across the Arab-speaking world. What are you personally most excited about in this partnership? Again, I think the Foundation has started doing a lot of work in trying to ptorome that entrepreneurship, so the Foundation started "Stars of Science," where it arattcts the yuong generation, entrepreneurs, innovators into trying to really take their ideas into action. And I think that relationship with TED comes as part of that sqeuence, that work the Foundation is doing from not only trying to iseancre the publication in aiarbc, which we do in HBKU psers, through "Stars of Science" - where we are really promoting that young generation to really bring their ideas and be more innovative - but also coming into a platform where we are taking that young gertoneian, those steiinstcs, those thinkers, those innovators globally and providing them with the right platform to express their ideas and to feel that we are really guiding them in that continuum, from working on the language, because, as you know, language is not only science. When you are not doing well, you are not only lagging in science, you are lagging in science, you are lagging in steociy, you are lgngaig in language, are lagging in everything. So, what we are trying to do is we're trying to really promote and get this language, again, back into the level where people start using it, it sartts really being aticve, and this is, again, as I said, similar to what everything the Foundation does. It supports the lgnguaae development, it supports the publication and writing, whether it's an aiaedmcc or non-academic book in the language and pteoomrs that, it's also providing the generation of entrepreneurs the ability to really get through programs like "Stars of science," which I have mentioned, and then provide the platform where you complete that equation, if you would like, taking the young generation from the schools who are learning Arabic up to you having an idea, and you can be able to pesnret it to the globe. So, to be honest, I am excited ... the most exciting one is to see those young entrepreneurs on the stage having the courage of saying, "We are really part of that globe we have geart ideas, and we are happy to present those." Thank you. That's a beautiful way to end this conversation. I look forward with my colleagues to see this partnership develop, to meeting you and your colleagues in Doha, and, of course, I thank the Qatar Foundation for its support of TED's misiosn. Dr. Hasnah, thank you very much for taking the time. And to those who have been listening, thank you for listening.

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Hello, I am going to be joined shortly by Dr. Ahmad Hasnah. Dr. Hasnah is the President of Hamad Bin _______ University in Doha, a member of the Qatar Foundation. Qatar Foundation and TED are launching a ___________ to _______ a _________ initiative ______ TED (Arabic), TEDinArabic. The aim is to provide a ________ for thinkers, scientists, artists to _____ their ideas in Arabic. We actually have many TED Talks on our sites translated and subtitled into Arabic, and there have been many TEDx events all across the Arab world. But this is the first TED initiative specifically focused on the Arabic language. We are going to _______ that, and we are going to discuss the future of education, and more. Dr. ______, welcome. How are you? I'm fine, thank you, Bruno. It's a pleasure being with you and with the TED community. So, let me start for those who are not aware of the work of the Qatar Foundation. Tell us a bit about the purpose of the Foundation and also briefly about the role of Hamad Bin Khalifa University within it. Thank you very much. The Foundation started around 25 years ago with the mission of really investing in the human capital, _________ that any development, whether it's economic or social, is going to be based on education and research. And that's why the Foundation has started _________ a high-quality educational program and invested in research education creating critical thinking, the ability of the people to really challenge ideas and really to be able to create a mindset of a new generation that is going to be really supporting the development of the region. So, the Foundation's mission was not only related to Qatar, but it is more toward the entire region trying to support the Arab _____ by really providing an opportunity and _________ educational, high-quality education aspect to the people in the region, believing that the road for the development, the only way you can achieve the future changing your status, is through education. And, of course, to be able to do those elements it has been working with a lot of very high quality education provider partnership, mainly from the US but from Europe, and trying to really be very highly _________ in the program that it is really related to the needs of the region, but at the same time on a very high quality, where the quality, or ___________ the quality of the different program is not only the responsibility of the Foundation, but it's also part of the ______________ of the _______. To be able to do so, Education City was created by building those partnerships with an institution of high quality, by attracting the best college or the best _______ per university. So, the whole idea was not really to attract one single university, the idea was to target the high-quality program, the high-quality research institution into Education City in ________ areas of a very important future development of the ______. And the whole model is about not only graduating students, but it is related to the ______ that those _______ institutions will have on the society and the public sector, and the private sector by introducing change into the way the different sectors of the society and the _______ and the region will function on. So, you need to look at Education City beyond only the number of students. It is really a more, if you would like, renaissance type of project where you are really trying to __________ everybody within the society, whether the students, whether the parents, whether the private sector, whether in the public sector. And the other very important element in my _______ in that it was the really very inclusive project where in order for you to join Education City it is really merit-based, it has nothing to do with your economic status or your ability to afford the program. The Foundation has administrated a very generous financial aid and scholarship because the idea was to really attract the best of the best and provide them with the right education. Maybe we need to _______ in two _____ a ______ of elements you used mentioned. So, I remember visiting Education City about maybe eight years ago, and I was impressed by the level of ambition, of trying to create not just a __________ but a sort of _________ that brought schools and universities and research centers all together. And what you mentioned before about the partnerships with top-level colleges and universities __________ actually into specific ____________ that are at the top of the rankings around the world, opening up faculties and departments within Education City. I remember, for example, some American universities running the Engineering Department, so that's the way it is developed. But let's talk about education. I think, even though education is the cornerstone of the entire work of the Foundation, the Foundation was very keen of building an entire ecosystem to provide the complete cycle of the students going from K to 12 education, into undergrad, into postgraduate, where Hamad Bin Khalifa University comes as a research-oriented, research-intensive university and providing the ability for the students to do their postgraduate into hosting research institute focusing on key challenges of the region, moving into the _______ & Technology Park and the innovation and entrepreneurship, which are really a very important elements of taking ideas into action and into really changing the way the _______ functions by encouraging more and more startups. So, if you take a look at Education City, you will find that City really encompasses all those, if you would like, factors of really ________ the future from education to research to entrepreneurship and commercialization. Dr Hasnah, you are an educator, and, as we are having the conversation, we are about six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had a big impact on education - everything from closing schools to didactic plans that have been sidetracked, ________ that have been challenged, ________ have been challenged when students are at home, et cetera, et cetera. What kind of experience can we draw from these six months, and what kind of real ________ ______ we put into thinking about the future of education from these six ______? So, I think every challenge comes with an opportunity. And I think the pandemic was really an eye-opener to all the educators to relook and _________ what they have been doing for years and whether this was really the right _____ or not. And I think, even though a lot of the universities, _________ ours, went immediately into a seamless - at least we have been lucky, I think the Foundation and HBKU _______ to go in a seamless way into ______ education. But we have all discovered that online education _________ lectures and slides over the Internet, it is not really the end of the story. This is maybe not the best we could do. I think what we are thinking and when we are really relooking at what we have learned from that experience, a lot of _____ comes to really ____________ learning, if you would like. How can you build a model where a student getting to a university does not need to really enter at the same ________ point, using the same ______ of time or working exactly at the same time, which is really during the lecture [hold]? What could you do in providing more _______ for your students to be able to take _______ across institutions? What can be done in really augmenting your education and experience to the students, so they are really not only getting the information, but they are building their soft skills and focusing on their soft skills? I think that the big ________ that we still need to all work on when we speak about reinventing higher _________ or rethinking about it, is not to settle by saying, "Online education." I think the pandemic has opened the horizon for everybody to relook at what we are really doing. Do formal degrees of a sense of four years bachelor's degree is the way to go for the future? What does lifelong learning mean for people with a rapid change? How can we __________ that to people within their workplace? How we can shift _______? What can we do in order for us to provide opportunities for each one of the students to learn at his own pace rather than being part of only the class at large? There is a lot, I think, that needs to be ______ at. But one thing that I am sure about is we did not yet reach the end of that question in one end, and the second is that, no ______ what we will do, part of that education ________ has to always be that interaction between the students among themselves and the faculty and the ________. Maybe the format will change, maybe the way it's going to change, maybe whether it is all at the same time might be changing, but I think we are going to envision a different way of conducting business. I think one element that we all really need to think about, when we talk about this, is that accessibility, inclusiveness is a challenge because there are a lot of countries today that do not have ________ access, they do not have the means to be able to do online education. So, when we think about education, we cannot just think it from our own setting. If we are really going to look into ______, we need to take care of those countries that are in need of education to change their life, and this is where what I'm saying related to what some universities have started like MicroMasters or many bachelor's degrees are going to be in place because those require less ______, less time of the people to be able to accomplish that, and then maybe the ability of really educating more people without any further physical space. Let's talk a couple of minutes about research and science and innovation. So the __________ is a key player in Qatar when it comes to funding and creating a context for research and innovation. Can you tell us about what the Foundation has built specifically in this _____ and what are the main areas of focus? So, research is a very key element of the Foundation. That's why it is called Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development So, science or research come actually in a very important pillar of the Foundation, and from the inception, the research aspect was crucial in the way the Foundation has even attracted educational partners. All of those are research universities, research partners. The Foundation believes that ________ is creating new ideas, ________ new content that are really going to do impact in ________ the country's economy and really moving toward the future. To be able to do so, the Foundation understands _________ that you need to build the research culture, you need to have the funding mechanism for which the Foundation has created the Qatar National Research Fund, which is really _________ against National Science Foundation as a funding agency that's really promoting research and also run a strategy, a research on a strategic plan where it __________ what is really the area where the country is in need and where we can make a difference, locally and internationally. And as a result of that study, three _____ areas have been identified as a way of moving into the future. One which is really in ICT, in computing, in AI, in cybersecurity, in Arabic language processing, in social networks. Second area is related to energy and environment. We all know the challenge that is facing not only the region, but internationally, from climate change, air quality, _____, and a lot of people speaking about the future: dispute is going to be around water, energy and how you can really deal with not only conventional energy, but how you can really make a more sustainable energy for the ______. And, of course, health, which is really a very important element, of having a healthy __________. And, you know, because the region in general has a very high rate, when it comes to diabetes and cancer, so there is a big _____ when it comes to research around diabetes and cancer and, if you would like, in neurosciences. All of that, it is not done in a very conventional way, it's done in a very multidisciplinary way, where you have the ICT engaged with biomedical, and so forth. So you are trying to create research teams that are really multidisciplinary, so they can _______ and enhance each other's work. So the idea is really to have that focus, so you can really contribute into the development of the future of the country. As you can see, those topics are heavily imported locally, relevant locally, but they have a global impact too. Everybody is worried about future energy, everybody is worried about how you deal with cancer and diabetes, and all of that. And, of course, ICT is, needless to say, what's happening on the sphere of social networks and cybersecurity and AI. Dr. Hasnah, you are the President of Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha, which is part of _____ Foundation but is a big ___________ on its own right. Tell us a little about it. So, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, which is a 10-year institution, came to ________ the cycle of education and research within the Foundation. So, as I said, the Education City has students from K to 12 and to undergrad. Hamad Bin Khalifa University came as a research-intensive university, focusing on postgraduate _______ to provide that ability to students to ______ their _______ of conducting ______ and PhD degrees and believing that your postgraduate is very essential in order for you to achieve the aspiration of the country of a knowledge-based economy. When HBKU was created, it was created on very important __________ that wanted to distinguish itself from the rest. One principle is related to the multidisciplinary approach and the providing programs and research aspects. As you know, a lot of the challenges, a lot of the problems that we are facing right now in the university are multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary types of ________. You need to have students while they are really heavily ___________ or very anchored in their disciplines. They need to understand the well-rounded information around that problem, that challenge. So, for example, environment: it is not only engineering elements, it is behavioral elements, it's an __________ _______, it's a policy issue. So, we are trying to build our educational program around the multidisciplinary as very important elements. Second, it is around real-life type of research aspects. We want our students to engage while they are in their education with research problems, research challenges, that it is really an ______ real-life type of a challenge for them, and not only, if you would like, hypothetical problems. We want them to really be addressing an actual _________. The third element, which I think is also key, it is related to __________ and entrepreneurship. We want the students to relate to be _____________. We want the faculty to be entrepreneurs, we want everybody to be really able to take a chance to try. We keep insisting to all our faculty, to all our students that ideas are worth nothing unless they are really taking action or being put into action. 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Hello, I am going to be joined shortly by Dr. Ahmad Hasnah. Dr. Hasnah is the President of Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha, a member of the Qatar Foundation. Qatar Foundation and TED are launching a partnership to develop a multiyear initiative called TED (Arabic), TEDinArabic. The aim is to provide a platform for thinkers, scientists, artists to share their ideas in Arabic. We actually have many TED Talks on our sites translated and subtitled into Arabic, and there have been many TEDx events all across the Arab world. But this is the first TED initiative specifically focused on the Arabic language. We are going to discuss that, and we are going to discuss the future of education, and more. Dr. Hasnah, welcome. How are you? I'm fine, thank you, Bruno. It's a pleasure being with you and with the TED community. So, let me start for those who are not aware of the work of the Qatar Foundation. Tell us a bit about the purpose of the Foundation and also briefly about the role of Hamad Bin Khalifa University within it. Thank you very much. The Foundation started around 25 years ago with the mission of really investing in the human capital, believing that any development, whether it's economic or social, is going to be based on education and research. And that's why the Foundation has started launching a high-quality educational program and invested in research education creating critical thinking, the ability of the people to really challenge ideas and really to be able to create a mindset of a new generation that is going to be really supporting the development of the region. So, the Foundation's mission was not only related to Qatar, but it is more toward the entire region trying to support the Arab world by really providing an opportunity and inclusive educational, high-quality education aspect to the people in the region, believing that the road for the development, the only way you can achieve the future changing your status, is through education. And, of course, to be able to do those elements it has been working with a lot of very high quality education provider partnership, mainly from the US but from Europe, and trying to really be very highly selective in the program that it is really related to the needs of the region, but at the same time on a very high quality, where the quality, or maintaining the quality of the different program is not only the responsibility of the Foundation, but it's also part of the responsibility of the partner. To be able to do so, Education City was created by building those partnerships with an institution of high quality, by attracting the best college or the best program per university. So, the whole idea was not really to attract one single university, the idea was to target the high-quality program, the high-quality research institution into Education City in specific areas of a very important future development of the region. And the whole model is about not only graduating students, but it is related to the impact that those quality institutions will have on the society and the public sector, and the private sector by introducing change into the way the different sectors of the society and the country and the region will function on. So, you need to look at Education City beyond only the number of students. It is really a more, if you would like, renaissance type of project where you are really trying to reenergize everybody within the society, whether the students, whether the parents, whether the private sector, whether in the public sector. And the other very important element in my opinion in that it was the really very inclusive project where in order for you to join Education City it is really merit-based, it has nothing to do with your economic status or your ability to afford the program. The Foundation has administrated a very generous financial aid and scholarship because the idea was to really attract the best of the best and provide them with the right education. Maybe we need to explain in two words a couple of elements you used mentioned. So, I remember visiting Education City about maybe eight years ago, and I was impressed by the level of ambition, of trying to create not just a university but a sort of ecosystem that brought schools and universities and research centers all together. And what you mentioned before about the partnerships with top-level colleges and universities translates actually into specific universities that are at the top of the rankings around the world, opening up faculties and departments within Education City. I remember, for example, some American universities running the Engineering Department, so that's the way it is developed. But let's talk about education. I think, even though education is the cornerstone of the entire work of the Foundation, the Foundation was very keen of building an entire ecosystem to provide the complete cycle of the students going from K to 12 education, into undergrad, into postgraduate, where Hamad Bin Khalifa University comes as a research-oriented, research-intensive university and providing the ability for the students to do their postgraduate into hosting research institute focusing on key challenges of the region, moving into the Science & Technology Park and the innovation and entrepreneurship, which are really a very important elements of taking ideas into action and into really changing the way the economy functions by encouraging more and more startups. So, if you take a look at Education City, you will find that City really encompasses all those, if you would like, factors of really building the future from education to research to entrepreneurship and commercialization. Dr Hasnah, you are an educator, and, as we are having the conversation, we are about six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had a big impact on education - everything from closing schools to didactic plans that have been sidetracked, teachers that have been challenged, families have been challenged when students are at home, et cetera, et cetera. What kind of experience can we draw from these six months, and what kind of real learning scheme we put into thinking about the future of education from these six months? So, I think every challenge comes with an opportunity. And I think the pandemic was really an eye-opener to all the educators to relook and reexamine what they have been doing for years and whether this was really the right model or not. And I think, even though a lot of the universities, including ours, went immediately into a seamless - at least we have been lucky, I think the Foundation and HBKU managed to go in a seamless way into online education. But we have all discovered that online education providing lectures and slides over the Internet, it is not really the end of the story. This is maybe not the best we could do. I think what we are thinking and when we are really relooking at what we have learned from that experience, a lot of ideas comes to really personalized learning, if you would like. How can you build a model where a student getting to a university does not need to really enter at the same entering point, using the same amount of time or working exactly at the same time, which is really during the lecture [hold]? What could you do in providing more options for your students to be able to take classes across institutions? What can be done in really augmenting your education and experience to the students, so they are really not only getting the information, but they are building their soft skills and focusing on their soft skills? I think that the big question that we still need to all work on when we speak about reinventing higher education or rethinking about it, is not to settle by saying, "Online education." I think the pandemic has opened the horizon for everybody to relook at what we are really doing. Do formal degrees of a sense of four years bachelor's degree is the way to go for the future? What does lifelong learning mean for people with a rapid change? How can we facilitate that to people within their workplace? How we can shift careers? What can we do in order for us to provide opportunities for each one of the students to learn at his own pace rather than being part of only the class at large? There is a lot, I think, that needs to be looked at. But one thing that I am sure about is we did not yet reach the end of that question in one end, and the second is that, no matter what we will do, part of that education equation has to always be that interaction between the students among themselves and the faculty and the students. Maybe the format will change, maybe the way it's going to change, maybe whether it is all at the same time might be changing, but I think we are going to envision a different way of conducting business. I think one element that we all really need to think about, when we talk about this, is that accessibility, inclusiveness is a challenge because there are a lot of countries today that do not have Internet access, they do not have the means to be able to do online education. So, when we think about education, we cannot just think it from our own setting. If we are really going to look into models, we need to take care of those countries that are in need of education to change their life, and this is where what I'm saying related to what some universities have started like MicroMasters or many bachelor's degrees are going to be in place because those require less costly, less time of the people to be able to accomplish that, and then maybe the ability of really educating more people without any further physical space. Let's talk a couple of minutes about research and science and innovation. So the Foundation is a key player in Qatar when it comes to funding and creating a context for research and innovation. Can you tell us about what the Foundation has built specifically in this field and what are the main areas of focus? So, research is a very key element of the Foundation. That's why it is called Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development So, science or research come actually in a very important pillar of the Foundation, and from the inception, the research aspect was crucial in the way the Foundation has even attracted educational partners. All of those are research universities, research partners. The Foundation believes that research is creating new ideas, creating new content that are really going to do impact in changing the country's economy and really moving toward the future. To be able to do so, the Foundation understands carefully that you need to build the research culture, you need to have the funding mechanism for which the Foundation has created the Qatar National Research Fund, which is really simulated against National Science Foundation as a funding agency that's really promoting research and also run a strategy, a research on a strategic plan where it identifies what is really the area where the country is in need and where we can make a difference, locally and internationally. And as a result of that study, three major areas have been identified as a way of moving into the future. One which is really in ICT, in computing, in AI, in cybersecurity, in Arabic language processing, in social networks. Second area is related to energy and environment. We all know the challenge that is facing not only the region, but internationally, from climate change, air quality, water, and a lot of people speaking about the future: dispute is going to be around water, energy and how you can really deal with not only conventional energy, but how you can really make a more sustainable energy for the future. And, of course, health, which is really a very important element, of having a healthy population. And, you know, because the region in general has a very high rate, when it comes to diabetes and cancer, so there is a big focus when it comes to research around diabetes and cancer and, if you would like, in neurosciences. All of that, it is not done in a very conventional way, it's done in a very multidisciplinary way, where you have the ICT engaged with biomedical, and so forth. So you are trying to create research teams that are really multidisciplinary, so they can support and enhance each other's work. So the idea is really to have that focus, so you can really contribute into the development of the future of the country. As you can see, those topics are heavily imported locally, relevant locally, but they have a global impact too. Everybody is worried about future energy, everybody is worried about how you deal with cancer and diabetes, and all of that. And, of course, ICT is, needless to say, what's happening on the sphere of social networks and cybersecurity and AI. Dr. Hasnah, you are the President of Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha, which is part of Qatar Foundation but is a big institution on its own right. Tell us a little about it. So, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, which is a 10-year institution, came to complete the cycle of education and research within the Foundation. So, as I said, the Education City has students from K to 12 and to undergrad. Hamad Bin Khalifa University came as a research-intensive university, focusing on postgraduate studies to provide that ability to students to follow their ability of conducting master and PhD degrees and believing that your postgraduate is very essential in order for you to achieve the aspiration of the country of a knowledge-based economy. When HBKU was created, it was created on very important principles that wanted to distinguish itself from the rest. One principle is related to the multidisciplinary approach and the providing programs and research aspects. As you know, a lot of the challenges, a lot of the problems that we are facing right now in the university are multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary types of problems. You need to have students while they are really heavily disciplined or very anchored in their disciplines. They need to understand the well-rounded information around that problem, that challenge. So, for example, environment: it is not only engineering elements, it is behavioral elements, it's an economical problem, it's a policy issue. So, we are trying to build our educational program around the multidisciplinary as very important elements. Second, it is around real-life type of research aspects. We want our students to engage while they are in their education with research problems, research challenges, that it is really an actual real-life type of a challenge for them, and not only, if you would like, hypothetical problems. We want them to really be addressing an actual challenge. The third element, which I think is also key, it is related to innovation and entrepreneurship. We want the students to relate to be entrepreneurs. We want the faculty to be entrepreneurs, we want everybody to be really able to take a chance to try. We keep insisting to all our faculty, to all our students that ideas are worth nothing unless they are really taking action or being put into action. So, the university has built its system in supporting students and the faculty and the researcher to give it a try, to take a risk, to fail, and to try again. So, we built the institution and provided the training, and the policy to provide all those opportunities for them to be able to do that. And I think the fourth very important element, in my opinion, is partnership because I think all the challenges that the world is facing right now cannot be addressed and dealt with by one institution. That's why I think we do a lot of partnerships of extended research team and extended educational relationship with the institution to provide our students with the best possible opportunities. Let's talk a moment about language, in particular, the Arabic language. We mentioned in the beginning that the context of our discussion is that Qatar Foundation and TED are starting a partnership to launch a new platform for sharing ideas in Arabic. Now, Arabic is, I think, the sixth most spoken language in the world. How do you see its importance in the world today? So, the Arabic language, we all need to remember that the people who are speaking Arabic today have contributed in the past to the civilization of the universe. They were part of that sequence of civilization. And I think the importance of the language becomes because the language brings history and culture with it. And it provides a set of values that can contribute into a different framework, whether from an ethical perspective, which is really crucial when it comes to stem cells, when it comes to AI, and when it comes to economy, it provides a different framework. So, I think the importance of the language comes not only because of its history, because of the number of speaking that language. I think it comes because of its roots of providing, if you would like, an alternative framework from a set of values, from a set of cultures that is truly addressing the future challenges of the universe, of the globe, using a different framework and a different set of values. And this is where, I think, the language importance comes. And I think this is one dimension of it when you speak about it globally. When you speak about it from a regional perspective, I think it is very important for the population of the region to be connected to their history, connected to their culture, feel that they can really have their own mother tongue use to really express their ideas. As you know, people are really much stronger when they express their ideas in their native language, and they understand much better in their native language. So, in order for you to do that change in that region, you need to be able to provide enough knowledge, enough platform for the people to express and to learn through their language because this the best way they can really achieve their potential. So, to me, it is really the Foundation looking at their investment in the language from those two perspectives, from renaissance and civilization, and the ability of providing that alternative, if you would like, a framework and alternative values, and at the same time being able to provide the needed means for those societies to be able to be linked to their history and the future at the same time. So, when we look around, for example, to digital space, the web, only a small fraction of the existing content is actually currently in Arabic, despite the continuing importance of the language, as we have just described. So, what does having curated content in Arabic through this new initiative TED (Arabic) mean to you? And what do you think it would mean to Arabic speakers and thinkers and scientists everywhere? So, I think I know that the Arabic language on the web has not that much content, but what we are trying to do is also providing more means for people to be able to access other languages through the language processing aspect that I mentioned related to ICT. I think the relationship with TED, it's a very important platform to provide those thinkers, that young generation, those potential entrepreneurs, innovators a platform where they can express their ideas, provide their thinking to their region, to their investors, to their private sector, to their institution, showing that even though they might not really be 100% able to put their ideas in English or French or other languages, we are providing them with the means, telling them that partnership is providing you with that platform. What it takes from you now is to have the courage of showing that you are really capable of providing a very interesting idea, and you are really an entrepreneur, that you are not afraid of sharing your ideas to the public, whether it's locally, regionally, or internationally. So now the plan for TED (Arabic) is to have events, of course, have a website, including a flagship event in Doha at the end of the initiative, and to feature thinkers, researchers, artists, change-makers, entrepreneurs from across the Arab-speaking world. What are you personally most excited about in this partnership? Again, I think the Foundation has started doing a lot of work in trying to promote that entrepreneurship, so the Foundation started "Stars of Science," where it attracts the young generation, entrepreneurs, innovators into trying to really take their ideas into action. And I think that relationship with TED comes as part of that sequence, that work the Foundation is doing from not only trying to increase the publication in Arabic, which we do in HBKU Press, through "Stars of Science" - where we are really promoting that young generation to really bring their ideas and be more innovative - but also coming into a platform where we are taking that young generation, those scientists, those thinkers, those innovators globally and providing them with the right platform to express their ideas and to feel that we are really guiding them in that continuum, from working on the language, because, as you know, language is not only science. When you are not doing well, you are not only lagging in science, you are lagging in science, you are lagging in society, you are lagging in language, are lagging in everything. So, what we are trying to do is we're trying to really promote and get this language, again, back into the level where people start using it, it starts really being active, and this is, again, as I said, similar to what everything the Foundation does. It supports the language development, it supports the publication and writing, whether it's an academic or non-academic book in the language and promotes that, it's also providing the generation of entrepreneurs the ability to really get through programs like "Stars of science," which I have mentioned, and then provide the platform where you complete that equation, if you would like, taking the young generation from the schools who are learning Arabic up to you having an idea, and you can be able to present it to the globe. So, to be honest, I am excited ... the most exciting one is to see those young entrepreneurs on the stage having the courage of saying, "We are really part of that globe we have great ideas, and we are happy to present those." Thank you. That's a beautiful way to end this conversation. I look forward with my colleagues to see this partnership develop, to meeting you and your colleagues in Doha, and, of course, I thank the Qatar Foundation for its support of TED's mission. Dr. Hasnah, thank you very much for taking the time. And to those who have been listening, thank you for listening.

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