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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 haamd Bin kalfiha 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 pvdroie a platform for thinkers, scientists, artists to share their ideas in aarbic. We actually have many TED tklas 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 fescuod on the Arabic language. We are going to discuss that, and we are going to dssiucs 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 catpial, 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 lhicnnuag 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 eudictoan aspect to the people in the region, believing that the road for the development, the only way you can achieve the future cnhgniag your stuats, is through education. And, of course, to be able to do those elements it has been working with a lot of very high qatluiy 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 bniduilg those partnerships with an institution of high quality, by attracting the best celgloe or the best prargom per university. So, the whole idea was not really to acrtatt one single university, the idea was to teargt the high-quality program, the high-quality research isuioittntn into Education City in specific areas of a very important future development of the region. And the whole model is about not only graduating studnets, but it is related to the impact that those quality isnutntotiis 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 stocer. 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 reembmer visiting Education City about maybe eight years ago, and I was iseerpmsd by the level of aobiitmn, 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 mneetnoid 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, onpieng up faculties and departments within Education City. I remember, for example, some American universities rnnuing 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 eirnte 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 uernrdagd, into postgraduate, where Hamad Bin Khalifa University comes as a research-oriented, research-intensive university and pdioirnvg 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 sptaruts. So, if you take a look at Education City, you will find that City really encompasses all those, if you would like, fotracs 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 imcapt 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 frutue 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 edoaurtcs 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 maenagd to go in a seamless way into online education. But we have all discovered that online education providing lectures and slides over the ieerntnt, 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 eernting point, using the same amount of time or working exactly at the same time, which is really during the ltrecue [hold]? What could you do in providing more options for your students to be able to take caselss 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 roolek at what we are really doing. Do fmraol degrees of a sense of four yeras bachelor's degree is the way to go for the future? What does lifelong learning mean for people with a rapid cngahe? How can we facilitate that to people within their workplace? How we can shift careers? What can we do in odrer 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 raech 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 ioctiatrnen 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, ilsuevisnencs is a challenge because there are a lot of ceroiunts 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 pacle 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 pchaiysl 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 silclfapciey in this field and what are the main areas of focus? So, research is a very key eeemlnt of the Foundation. That's why it is cllead 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 uvieirseints, 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 unnrtadseds carefully that you need to build the research culture, you need to have the fninudg mechanism for which the Foundation has craeetd 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 rrceaseh 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, locllay and internationally. And as a result of that study, three major aears have been identified as a way of moving into the future. One which is really in ICT, in cnmpiotug, in AI, in cybersecurity, in Arabic language processing, in social networks. Second area is related to energy and eromnienvnt. 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, haetlh, 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 engeagd with beaidimcol, and so forth. So you are trying to ceatre research teams that are really multidisciplinary, so they can support and enhance each other's work. So the idea is really to have that fuocs, so you can really contribute into the development of the future of the country. As you can see, those tcpios 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 soiacl nkrwoets 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 setduis to provide that ability to students to flolow their atiibly of conducting mestar and PhD degrees and bneveliig that your pttorasaduge is very esteansil 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 iamprotnt 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 iisdteainnrriplcy 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 eetmlens, it's an economical problem, it's a policy issue. So, we are trying to bluid our educational program around the multidisciplinary as very important elements. Second, it is around real-life type of research acspets. 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 asdeidrnsg an actual challenge. The third element, which I think is also key, it is rtaeeld to itooninvan and entrepreneurship. We want the students to rtleae 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 fcaulty, 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 oipnion, is partnership because I think all the challenges that the wlrod is fnicag right now cannot be addressed and dealt with by one institution. That's why I think we do a lot of pantirrehsps 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 qaatr Foundation and TED are starting a partnership to launch a new platform for srnhaig ideas in Arabic. Now, Arabic is, I think, the sxtih 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 vaeuls that can contribute into a different framework, whether from an ethical picvtrepsee, which is really crucial when it comes to stem clles, 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 fmrreoawk 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, coteencnd to their culture, feel that they can really have their own mother tongue use to really express their ieads. As you know, people are really much stoenrgr 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 laren through their language because this the best way they can really achieve their piantteol. So, to me, it is really the Foundation looking at their ientsvmnet in the language from those two perspectives, from rsiaenscnae and ctvzoiliaiin, and the ability of providing that atlnvetiare, if you would like, a framework and alternative values, and at the same time being able to provide the ndeeed 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 lauggane, as we have just described. So, what does having curated ctnoent in Arabic through this new iiaiinvtte 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 prsteniarhp is providing you with that platform. What it takes from you now is to have the courage of showing that you are really cbalpae of providing a very interesting idea, and you are really an entrepreneur, that you are not afraid of sharing your ideas to the pliubc, whether it's locally, regionally, or inianllantrteoy. 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 protome that eetrrpherniseunp, so the fouindoatn started "Stars of scnicee," 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 sneecuqe, 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 porlaftm where we are taking that young generation, those sniittcess, 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 wniorkg 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 lgnigag 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 leevl where poeple 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 spuports the publication and writing, whether it's an aicedmac or non-academic book in the language and ptroomes that, it's also providing the gntraoeien 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 exectid ... the most exciting one is to see those young entrepreneurs on the sagte having the curgaoe 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 ceorsnioatvn. 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 spuorpt of TED's mission. Dr. Hasnah, thank you very much for taking the time. And to those who have been listening, thank you for liisnteng.

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Hello, I am going to be joined shortly by Dr. Ahmad Hasnah. Dr. Hasnah is the President of _____ Bin _______ 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 _______ a platform for thinkers, scientists, artists to share their ideas in ______. We actually have many TED _____ 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 _______ on the Arabic language. We are going to discuss that, and we are going to _______ 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 _______, 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 _________ 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 _________ aspect to the people in the region, believing that the road for the development, the only way you can achieve the future ________ your ______, is through education. And, of course, to be able to do those elements it has been working with a lot of very high _______ 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 ________ those partnerships with an institution of high quality, by attracting the best _______ or the best _______ per university. So, the whole idea was not really to _______ one single university, the idea was to ______ the high-quality program, the high-quality research ___________ into Education City in specific areas of a very important future development of the region. And the whole model is about not only graduating ________, but it is related to the impact that those quality ____________ 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 ______. 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 ________ visiting Education City about maybe eight years ago, and I was _________ by the level of ________, 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 _________ 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, _______ up faculties and departments within Education City. I remember, for example, some American universities _______ 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 ______ 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 _________, into postgraduate, where Hamad Bin Khalifa University comes as a research-oriented, research-intensive university and _________ 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 ________. So, if you take a look at Education City, you will find that City really encompasses all those, if you would like, _______ 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 ______ 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 ______ 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 _________ 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 _______ to go in a seamless way into online education. But we have all discovered that online education providing lectures and slides over the ________, 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 ________ point, using the same amount of time or working exactly at the same time, which is really during the _______ [hold]? What could you do in providing more options 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 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 ______ at what we are really doing. Do ______ degrees of a sense of four _____ bachelor's degree is the way to go for the future? What does lifelong learning mean for people with a rapid ______? How can we facilitate that to people within their workplace? How we can shift careers? What can we do in _____ 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 _____ 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 ___________ 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, _____________ is a challenge because there are a lot of _________ 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 _____ 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 ________ 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 ____________ in this field and what are the main areas of focus? So, research is a very key _______ of the Foundation. That's why it is ______ 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 ____________, 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 ___________ carefully that you need to build the research culture, you need to have the _______ mechanism for which the Foundation has _______ 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 ________ 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, _______ and internationally. And as a result of that study, three major _____ have been identified as a way of moving into the future. One which is really in ICT, in _________, in AI, in cybersecurity, in Arabic language processing, in social networks. Second area is related to energy and ___________. 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, ______, 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 _______ with __________, and so forth. So you are trying to ______ research teams that are really multidisciplinary, so they can support and enhance each other's work. So the idea is really to have that _____, so you can really contribute into the development of the future of the country. As you can see, those ______ 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 ______ ________ 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 _______ to provide that ability to students to ______ their _______ of conducting ______ and PhD degrees and _________ that your ____________ is very _________ 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 _________ 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 _________________ 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 ________, it's an economical problem, it's a policy issue. So, we are trying to _____ our educational program around the multidisciplinary as very important elements. Second, it is around real-life type of research _______. 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 __________ an actual challenge. The third element, which I think is also key, it is _______ to __________ and entrepreneurship. We want the students to ______ 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 _______, 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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