How to turn frustration into art | Samar Mezghanni | TEDxSouthMediterraneanUniversity
NOTE FROM TED: This talk only represents the speaker’s personal views and experiences. TEDx events are independently organized by volunteers. The guidelines we give TEDx organizers are described in more detail here: http://storage.ted.com/tedx/manuals/tedx_content_guidelines.pdfThe last time I wanted to kill someone was at a private dinner for eight VIPs. I was not one of them, but I witnessed the bizarre conversations and extraordinary events happening at that dinner unfold in front me, along with the corrupt toxic personalities of its guests. Fuming with anger, I managed to stop myself from poisoning the dinner, only to commit a rather beautiful crime later: I took revenge by writing the truth about that night in my novel “Dinner for Eight”. Throughout the story, the lies sustaining fragile masculinity, power corruption, and climate change are revealed to unmask the eight VIPs that you may know.
In a world mastered by a few corrupt VIPs, and in the zeitgeist of ugly lies, we are sedated, insane, or criminals. But what makes a beautiful crime? And how can we turn our frustration, anger, malaise, pain and desire for revenge into a different story, a constructive idea, and a call for action? Dr. Samar is a Canadian/Tunisian/Iraqi writer and international speaker with two records in Guinness Book for World Records as the youngest writer in the world in 2000 and the most prolific writer in the world in 2002. She has written over a hundred stories and published 16 books. Her work earned her several awards and her stories were quoted by the Chair of the Nobel Prize in her speech at the Nobel Prize Ceremony in 2015.
Samar is the first Tunisian to obtain a PhD from the University of Cambridge ever (in more than 800 years). She delivered keynote speeches in more than 30 countries across 5 continents including a Keynote speech at the United Nations (UN). The BBC nominated her as one of the 100 most inspiring women. The UN appointed her as a United Nations Young Leader for the Sustainable Development Goals. She was classified as one of the most influential Arab women in 2013 and one of the most important young leaders in the Arab region in 2012. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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