MIT Architecture's Spring 2012 Lecture Series: SpecificationsRead more at: http://architecture.mit.edu/lectures/public-lecture-seriesMarch 15, 2012This Lecture, instead of linking architecture production to its proper history (history of architecture), ...
Speaker Dr. Marwan Muasher, Vice President for Studies Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Marwan Muasher is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment, where he oversees the Endowment's research in Washington and Beirut on the Middle East. Muasher ...
Wadah Khanfar on the Arab Spring and Closing remarks
MIT 21A.453 Anthropology of the Middle East, Spring 2004View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/21A-453S04Instructor: Susan SlyomovicsDirected and produced by: Susan Slyomovics, Amanda Dargan This film brings the viewer into a Pakistani living room in Queens, ...
MIT 21A.453 Anthropology of the Middle East, Spring 2004View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/21A-453S04Instructor: Susan SlyomovicsDirected and produced by: Susan SlyomovicsAwadallah Abd al-Jalil Ali is the "merchant of art," a professional epic singer. ...
Arab Cultural Night, April 14, 2012Presented by Palestine@MITCosponsors: Arabic Student Organization, Lebanese Club @ MIT, MIT Egyptian Club A night of Traditional Arabic Food, Folk Dance, Fashion Show and Music in Lobdell!, and a performance by Palestine@MIT's very own Dabka team.
Arab Cultural Night, April 14, 2012Presented by Palestine@MITCosponsors: Arabic Student Organization, Lebanese Club @ MIT, MIT Egyptian Club A night of Traditional Arabic Food, Folk Dance, Fashion Show and Music in Lobdell!, and a performance by Palestine@MIT's very own Dabka team.
This video was conceived around the idea that students, particularly students in lower-level biology classes (i.e. not AP classes) have a practical application for knowing about the major divisions between plants, particularly about the details of plant anatomy and ...
Teacher: Fatma Al-QataniPresenter: Amjad Al NourSummary: Beavers are generally known as the engineers of the animal world. In fact the beaver is MIT's mascot! But honeybees might be better engineers than beavers! And in this lesson involving geometry in ...
Teacher: Fatma Al-QataniPresenter: Amjad Al NourSummary: Beavers are generally known as the engineers of the animal world. In fact the beaver is MIT's mascot! But honeybees might be better engineers than beavers! And in this lesson involving geometry in ...
Teachers: Dr. F. Jordan Srour and Dr. George TurkiyyahSummary: This video lesson will introduce students to algorithmic thinking through the use of a popular field in graph theory --- social networking. Specifically, by acting as nodes in a graph ...
The objective of this video lesson is to correct the misconception in the students’ understanding of centrifugal force. The lesson will work to clarify this misconception by using Newton's three laws of motion, particularly the law of inertia, and will ...
Teachers: Rabih Talhouk, PhD and Elia El-Habre, MSc. of the American University of Beirut in LebanonSummary: How is it that all cells in our body have the same genes, yet cells in different tissues express different genes? A basic notion in biology that most high ...
By: Gilbert StrangSummary: This lesson aims to help students with quadratic functions y = ax2 + bx + c. This is the next step after linear functions bx + c. The lesson begins with three quadratics and their graphs (three parabolas): y = x2 - 2x + (0 ...
Teachers: Swati Gupta, John Silberholz and Nataly YoussefSummary: Exponential growth is keenly applicable to a variety of different fields ranging from cell growth in biology, nuclear chain reactions in physics to computational complexity in computer science. In this ...
This video lesson discusses how a few simple physics concepts can help in understanding various factors that influence the performance of racing cars. Students will also learn how these same concepts influence the design and development of a racing car that is safe ...
This lesson will explain the process of data transfer throughout computer systems, and the form the data gets transferred into. Additionally, the lesson will touch on some factors that alter the transfer speed. Simple analogies and examples are used to explain ...
One of the main problems facing Saudi Arabia and many other countries in the region is the movement of sand, which threatens the urban areas. With the expansion of new installations and other projects, sand dune movement is costing governments a lot of money and ...
This lesson sheds some light on the problem of the movement of sand and introduce students to basic knowledge about this issue.
This video presents a lesson on Type 2 diabetes for high school students - what diabetes is and how it works in the human body.