Joris Luyendijk returns as the host of TEDxAmsterdam, introducing our speakers and reflecting on the audiences expectations like no one else can. At TEDxAmsterdam 2009, he brought an optimistic, positive feeling to the event, which was felt by all. Luyendijk is a writer and TV host who studied in Kansas, Amsterdam, and Cairo. His first book “Een goede man slaat soms zijn vrouw” (A Good Man Sometimes Hits His Wife, 1998) is about the Egyptian society from a Western observer’s point of view.
He eventually became a news correspondent in the Middle East, based in Egypt, Lebanon, and Israel. He also reported on the Second Gulf War in Iraq. His book Het zijn net mensen (They Are Just Like People, 2006) is about his experiences as a news correspondent in the Middle East and has been translated and published in 10 countries (”They are just like people”/”Fit to Print”/”People like us”), and is about his experiences as a news correspondent in the Middle East.
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