10 years of TED Talks keeping pace with history
Cynthia Betubiza
The following wave of demonstrations and protests resulted in President Mubarak’s resignation and much later, a draft for a new constitution. The whistleblower — and the whistleblowee: Edward Snowden was a government contractor working in Hawaii for the NSA. The refugee crisis begins: In the midst of the Arab Spring, a group of Syrian pro-democracy demonstrators protested in March 2011. This marked a monumental achievement in physics. In 2014, Ghani became president of Afghanistan.