Manwar Ali was one of the UK’s most prominent advocates of Jihad. Now his talk about peace and radicalization of young Muslims has reached over 1 million views.
The former radical jihadist, who participated in violent, armed campaigns in the Middle East and Asia in the 1980s, spoke powerfully at TEDxExeter earlier this year about his remarkable journey from jihadi fighter to renouncing his former views and working for peace. In a little over six months film of his talk has now been translated into 10 languages and viewed over 1 million times online on TED.com.
The idea of jihad has been hijacked, perverted and turned into terrorism by fascistic Islamists says Manwar Ali in his TEDxExeter talk Inside the mind of a former radical Jihadist.
His is one of the very few TEDx talks to be chosen to feature on www.TED.com . The talk, which has been watched by nearly 7,000 people since it went online in May, will now reach a global audience, and could reach millions of new viewers.
In his moving, personal talk Manwar Ali reflects on his own experience of radicalisation and violent Jihad and makes a powerful and direct appeal to anyone...
The fifth TEDxExeter conference was by far the biggest yet.
The local audience doubled in size compared with last year and the day reached audiences online as far away as Mongolia, Colombia, Lithuania and Korea as well as the United States, India, Germany, and Saudi Arabia
The event was streamed live from Exeter Northcott Theatre to more than 30 public and private viewing party venues in Exeter and the surrounding area with more groups gathering to watch in London, San Francisco, New York, Chicago and Mumbai.
In total the livestream was viewed more than 3,000 times...
Leaders from across Exeter are gathering this week for the first TEDxExeter Adventure
The masterclass, at the University of Exeter, will feature Cormac Russell and bring together key influencers from the public, voluntary and community sectors.
Mr Russell is the managing director of Nurture Development, Europe’s leading asset-based community development organisation and advocates how institutions can support ‘bottom up’ community driven change. He supports both communities and organisations to create conditions where any neighbourhood can identify, connect and mobilise...
A long-term fan of TED Talks has won a place on the Northcott stage at this month's TEDxExeter Conference.
In the face of tough competition from fellow members of the College debating society, Abbie McGregor (16) who is in her first year at Exeter College wowed the judges from TEDxExeter with her talk Remember to DREAM.
Abbie was introduced to TED Talks by an inspiring teacher at primary school when she was 10 or 11. “I really liked the idea that people stood there telling us what they thought,” she says. “I watched as many as I could. Through TED Talks I learned about the...
More people will be able to watch TEDxExeter and discuss the talks they are hearing, thanks to three new public livestreams.
The main event, which takes place at the Northcott Theatre on April 15 2016, sold out in a record 22 minutes in December last year, and tickets for a simultaneous broadcast to Exeter University’s Alumni Auditorium sold in a day. There is a now a chance to watch the livestream at Exeter Library, Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) and Teignmouth Pavilion.
An additional 80 people who missed out on tickets can watch it free of...
The reality of life for refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria will come vividly to life when award-winning photographer Giles Duley shows his pictures and tells the stories behind them at this year’s TEDxExeter.
Duley, who lost three limbs and nearly his life in 2011 when working in Afghanistan, is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. He started out as a fashion and music photographer photographing such nineties icons as Oasis, The Prodigy and Pulp.
Disillusioned with celebrity culture, he discovered that he could use his craft to tell the stories of those...
Internationally renowned speakers come to Exeter to present their 'ideas worth spreading' at TEDxExeter 2016
Jihad, communication, human rights and inequality are just some of the challenging issues facing us all today. They are also all on the agenda for this year’s TEDxExeter conference, when experts from a wide range of fields will come to Exeter to share their ideas and solutions.
Alex Holmes was bullied at school. In the sixth form he set up a peer mentoring scheme to tackle the problem, and received a Diana Award. Now head of the anti-bullying campaign at the Diana...
TEDxExeter aims to more than double its reach this year thanks to the loyal support of existing sponsors, and new organisations who have come on board. Their sponsorship means that many more people will be able to see some of the world’s best thinkers share their ground-breaking work and ideas.
Now in its fifth year, TEDxExeter will take place on Friday 15 April at the Exeter Northcott Theatre with a simultaneous livestream to the nearby Alumni Auditorium. Tickets for both these events are now sold out, but there are still opportunities for people to get involved.
Professor Michelle Ryan’s 2015 TEDxExeter talk has been viewed nearly 70,000 times in the past six months, and tops a recent compilation of TEDx talks on the way we work.
Michelle Ryan is Professor of Social and Organisational Psychology at the University of Exeter. Her TEDxExeter talk examines work-life balance – asking whether it is about balancing time or balancing identity. Her research demonstrates that in male-dominated professions, such as surgery, science and the police force, men and women start out with the same ambition to succeed, but women’s ambition erodes over time...
