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March 15, 2014

Challenging Perspectives

The 2014 TEDxDhahranHighSchool event brought together students and professionals to challenge conventional thinking on personal and global scales. The talks encouraged the audience to look beyond surface-level assumptions and redefine their understanding of complex systems. From re-evaluating personal success and global health equity to reimagining diplomacy and world problem-solving, the speakers inspired a new look at the human element within established systems. The event served as a call to question norms and consider the personal fulfillment and human connections that drive real-world change.

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Speakers

  • Abdurrahman Kharbat:

    Purposes for Success

    Abdurrahman (Ak) Kharbat talks about why career excellence is not the same as success, and how we need different purposes for different time periods to achieve different things.

  • Ahmad Amer:

    Medicine for the People

    Ahmad Amer talks about what's wrong with the pharmaceutical industry today, how people are being kept from vital nutrients, and how we can go about fixing this.

  • Arsalan Siddiqui:

    Medicine for the People

    Arsalan Siddiqui talks about what's wrong with the pharmaceutical industry today, how people are being kept from vital nutrients, and how we can go about fixing this.

  • Schuyler Vanorsdale:

    Change Agent X

    Schuyler Vanorsdale talks about how we need social and cultural leaders to help solve world problems, rather than just politicians.

  • Joey Hood:

    The Secret Lives of Diplomats

    Joey Hood, United States Consul General to the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, talks about how everything we think we know about diplomats is wrong.