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NEW YORK, February 11, 2009 - Filmmaker Mira Nair and writer and physician Abraham Verghese discuss Verghese’s debut novel, Cutting for Stone. (1 hr., 15 min.)
Relive Asia Society's inaugural Asia Game Changer awards ceremony held at the United Nations on October 16, 2014. Honorees included education activist Malala Yousafzai and internet entrepreneur Jack Ma.
Composer Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky and choreographer/dancer Jonah Bokaer present their Asia Society commission at the gala opening of "Nam June Paik: Becoming Robot."
Malala Yousafzai expresses her hope that worldwide effort can ensure access to education for girls and young women from Nigeria to her native Pakistan.
Columbia Business School professor and author Sheena Iyengar describes how her grandmother's and mother's belief in higher education, which was radical at that time in India, shaped her path in life.
Mursal Hamraz recounts her personal history and shares her conviction that education for girls and women is the "only key toward positive change" in Afghanistan.