Comedian Maz Jobrani has some advice for anyone who happens to be Middle Eastern and getting on a plane in the United States.

“As a Middle Eastern male, I know there’s certain things I’m not supposed to say on an airplane in the U.S. I can’t walk down the aisle and be like, ‘Hi, Jack.’ Even if I’m there with my friend Jack, I say, ‘Greetings Jack,’” jokes Jobrani in today’s talk, filmed at the TEDxSummit in Doha, Qatar. “The key, my Arab brothers and sisters, is that you throw in good words as you’re walking down the aisle.”

Jobrani’s suggestions: ‘strawberry,’ ‘rainbow’ or ‘tutti frutti.’

Jobrani, an Iranian-American who was a founding member of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour, is known for poking fun at the strained relations between the West and the Middle East.

“A lot of Americans don’t know a lot about us in the Middle East. People don’t know we laugh,” says Jobrani in today’s talk. “We like to laugh, we like to celebrate life … I always encourage my friends to travel and see the Middle East — and vice versa. It helps stop problems of misunderstanding and stereotyping.”

To see an example of a Middle Eastern audience cracking up, watch Jobrani’s talk. And after the jump, see more from this comedian and his compatriots.

At TEDGlobal 2010, Jobrani talked about founding the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour with Ahmed Ahmed, who is Egyptian-American, and Aron Kader, who is Palestinian-American. In this bold talk, Jobrani pokes fun at his dual identity. “It causes a lot of inner conflict. Part of me likes me, part of me hates me,” he says. “Part of me thinks I should have a nuclear program; the other part thinks I can’t be trusted.”

In his comedy special Brown and Friendly, Jobrani talks about growing up in Iran and doing his best to blend in when he came to the United States. “I would play baseball, I would eat apple pie,” he says. “I would eat apple pie while playing baseball … Everything would be cool until my dad would come to pick me up.”

In this set from the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour, Jobrani lays out the differences between Persians and Arabs. “We’re similar — we’re all getting shot at,” jokes Jobrani, before explaining why Iranians prefer to call themselves “Persian.”

Ahmed Ahmed spoke at TEDxDoha, making the point that when it comes to laughter, the Middle East and the West are actually very similar. “It’s great being a comedian. I get to travel all over the world and meet people from all over the world. The problem is getting there,” says Ahmed. “If you Google my name, it comes up on the FBI’s most wanted list. There’s this terrorist from Egypt and he kind of looks like me. I thought, ‘I gotta find this guy, he’s killing me.’ And then it dawned on me, maybe he’s in the Middle East Googling me and saying, ‘Bro, look, there’s this comedian in America, man. He’s using my name.’”

Aron Kader is the third member of the Axis of Evil comedy tour. In this video from the Just For Laughs Festival, Kader talks about “Making small talk with Palestinians.” He jokes, “Sometimes people ask me what my ethnicity is, and I’ll say Palestinian. And there’s never a follow-up question.”

Television producer Jamil Abu-Wardeh moved from London to Dubai with a vision: to bring stand-up comedy to the Middle East. In this talk from TEDGlobal 2010, he shares how he built on Jobrani, Ahmed and Kader’s work, and brought their brand of comedy to the Middle East. In this funny talk, he reveals how thousands came out to see the Axis of Evil Middle East Comedy Tour, which highlighted the work of Korean-Jordanian comic Won Ho Chung, and Nemr Abou Nassar, who is Lebanese. While these comedians could make any jokes they wanted, Abu-Wardeh urged them to stay away from the “three B’s” — blue material, beliefs and “bolitics.”

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In this exclusive (unedited) video from TEDxSummit this spring, Yahay Alabdeli tells a moving, personal story of returning to his home country, Iraq — and throwing a TEDx. In a city still recovering, still learning its true nature after years of oppression, the first TEDxBaghdad in 2011 celebrated ideas, connections, education, music. “My Baghdad is not a city of bombing,” he says. “My Baghdad was once a center of Arab learning, a center of peace.”

Watch that, then watch this: the trailer for this year’s TEDxBaghdad: The Beginning Begins.

Below, see photos from TEDxBaghdad 2012, last weekend.

Karim Wasfi of the Peace Through Arts Initiative brought students onstage to play classical music.

TEDxBaghdad was livestreamed free. Watch for talks from the event to appear on video in coming months as resources allow.

A view from the audience at TEDxBaghdad 2012. Photo: Alicia Sully and Pedro Ramirez Paz of the What Took You So Long Foundation

Two years ago, a chance discussion with a group of Gulf of Mexico fishermen changed the course of Cesar Harada’s life. The TED Senior Fellow had landed his dream job at MIT in Boston, but after hearing first-hand accounts of the conditions in the Gulf following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill of 2010, Harada tendered his resignation and moved to New Orleans. His mission: to create a boat better able to drag absorbent material through the spill area for more efficient clean up.

Harada looked to ancient sailing techniques to inspire his design. In the end, he created a vessel — called Protei – that bends and flexes, capturing the wind in both directions. The boat is able to tightly snake through oil-covered areas, with the current, cleaning wide swaths of oil with low energy output.

As Harada developed his shape-shifting prototype, he published the plans online, collaborating with others to make the boat as efficient as possible. Rather than try to profit from his new sailing technology, Hasada aims to keep all the hardware open-source. As he says in his inspiring TEDTalk, “We need to share information … to replace competition with collaboration.”

Because Harada believes so deeply in sharing, below, a look at other oil spill clean up technology with great promise.

A robot that detects spills
Liquid Robotics, a start-up in San Francisco, has created a robot that can sense oil leakage around drilling platforms. As CNN reports, these robots could prevent rig explosions like the one that happened in the Gulf. Even better? The robots are powered only by the sun and the waves. While the bots are pricey — $200K, to be exact – the company is reportedly looking to make them rentable as well as buyable.

Soak-up sponges
Oil in the ocean may not be too different from cooking oil dripped on your kitchen sink. According to Science Daily, researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed a lightweight sponge called aerogel — made of clay and plastic — that absorbs large amounts of oil. Made on a mass scale, these sponges could tackle spills in the ocean — and allow the sopped-up oil to be squeezed out for use after absorption.

A very groovy disc
At TEDxOilSpill, held in 2010, Wendy Schmidt and the X Prize Foundation announced that they would donate $1.4 million to teams presenting novel solutions to the Gulf of Mexico clean up effort. Team Elastec, an Illinois-based company specializing in oil spill recovery, won the first prize of $1 million by creating a giant grooved disc that skims oil more than three times more quickly than the industry standard. “When we first started, I gotta admit we said, ‘We don’t know if we can do this,’” said team member Charles Storey. Their winning skimmer, however, recovered an astounding 4,670 gallons of oil per minute.

An oil-collecting funnel
So who won second prize? Team Nofi, a maritime technology company from Norway. The group won $300K for their innovative Current Buster system, which captures 2,712 gallons of runaway oil per minute. As X Prize technical director Jeff Skipper, “It’s like a great big Slip ‘n’ Slide with two huge pontoons.”

Magnetic soaps
One of the biggest problems with current oil spill clean up is the use of oil dispersants, which do not easily break down. According to the website Mother Nature Network, scientists at the University of Bristol have created a more environmentally-friendly soap — still in development — that is iron-rich and salty. Thus, when magnetic force is applied, the soap rises to the surface — with the oil still trapped inside.

And check out these TEDTalks about oil spills:

The political chemistry of oil
Lisa Margonelli, Director of the New America Foundation Energy Policy Initiative, says that oil executive firings are pure political theater. The real issue with oil spills is the insane amount of oil we consume.

The oil spill’s toxic trade-off
Marine toxicologist Susan Shaw explains how the clean up strategy of chemically breaking down an oil spill might save beaches, but at a far too great cost to the deep sea.

The oil spill’s unseen culprits and victims
Ecologist Carl Safina explains why the Deepwater Horizon spill will have ripple effects for a greater time, and over a greater distance, than most of us can imagine.

How we wrecked the ocean
Jeremy Jackson, noted marine ecologist, gives some very scary stats about the damage we are doing to our coral reefs and oceans through pollution, overfishing and overheating.

Do you have a 5-year plan? A 10-year plan? Even if you’ve mapped out your life 20 years into the future, chances are that multidisciplinary artist Raghava KK has you beat. Giving a laugh-inducing talk at the TEDxSummit in Doha, Raghava explained that he and his wife, Nedra, have drawn up a life plan that covers the next two centuries.

“Our friends think we’re mad, our parents think we’re cuckoo … But we both like to live larger than life,” he said. “Two hundred years, we calculated, is the end of our contact with the world. We thought: That’s the perfect place to situate our plan and let our imaginations run wild.”

So what’s in this 200-year plan? Watch the talk to find out. And check out these three other projects with ambitious timeframes — plus a list of TEDTalks to get you thinking long-term.

The 10,000-year clock
Stewart Brand thinks that part of the problem when it comes to how humans treat the planet is that we think of “now” as a very short-term thing. And thus, he created the Clock of the Long Now, which could keep good time until the year 12012 — and no, that is not a typo. “It would be helpful if humanity got into the habit of thinking of the ‘now’ not just as next week or next quarter but as the next 10,000 years,” explains Brand in a TEDTalk about the timepiece.

The 176-year experiment
In 1927, Professor Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland Brisbane began the “pitch drop experiment,” designed to show his students that some substances that seem like solids are actually liquids. Parnell poured hot tar pitch into a sealed funnel, let it settle and solidify, and opened the funnel neck three years later. And waited. The first drop of tar fell from the funnel in 1938, and it continues to drip very, very slowly. The eighth drop fell in the year 2000, and the ninth drop is expected in 2013. Watch a live feed here.

The 52-day foot race
Many people gawk at the idea of running 26 miles — a standard marathon — while others look at it as an accomplishment they need to complete once. Few would ever attempt the Self-Transcendence 3,100-mile race, certified as the longest footrace in the world. According to the events’ website, runners must average nearly 60 miles per day to finish within the 52-day limit.

More TEDTalks about long-horizon events:

The oldest living things in the world
Rachel Sussman travels the world shooting photos of its oldest living things — ancient lichen, corals and trees that have existed for hundreds of years.

How to live to be 100+
Dan Buettner visited communities around the world where people routinely outlive the norm — and found some striking similarities. He shares the secret of a happy, long life.

Is this our final century?
The UK’s Royal Astronomer, Sir Martin Rees, takes the very long view of human evolution — but asks if we’ve gone too far down a road that could lead to self-destruction.

“Our general approach is to enhance outdoor comfort by considering shading, wind, sky cooling, thermal mass,” Kessling tells the TED Blog. “Active solar cooling systems are the [best] choice in areas that get very hot. They turn the high solar radiation of these areas from a problem into an opportunity.”

We’ll see how it goes in 2022. In the meantime, here’s a look at 5 other public spaces—both existing and in the works—that harness innovative cooling strategies.

Plaza, The City of the Future
Masdar, United Arab Emirates
Kessling worked on the social center of this complex in the United Arab Emirates, designed as an experiment in sustainable technology and architecture. In the plaza, a series of enormous umbrellas—which look like something out of “Avatar”—protect the open plaza from the sun during the day. At night, they can be closed. [Environmental Graffiti]

The Living Roof, California Academy of Sciences
San Francisco, Calif.
Rather than a traditional black-tar and asphalt roof, architect Renzo Piano designed the top of this museum building to house 197,000 square feet of native Californian plants, organized in undulating hills. This lush planted roof beats the “urban heat island” effect, and keeps the interior an average of 10 degrees cooler. [California Academy]

The Pearl Academy of Fashion
Jaipur, India
This fashion school looks modern, but it employs an ancient cooling system. The academy’s ground floor features a large, shallow pool, which chills the interior as it evaporates and keeps it 20 degrees cooler than the sweltering air outside. The design was inspired by Mughal palaces. [CNN]

[For more on India's ancient secrets of water, watch Anupam Mishra's TEDTalk]

Canal City
Fukuoka, Japan
An outdoor mall in southern Japan, this space feels like a canyon with a river flowing at the bottom. While the waterway chills the space, the shape of the buildings directs a cooling airflow. But the canals also serve aesthetic purposes—the complex is known for its hourly fountain shows. [Inhabitat]

The Guggenheim Museum
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Another project that Kessling has worked on, this Frank Gehry-designed museum will be surrounded on three sides by the Persian Gulf. When built, the museum will feature covered courtyards naturally cooled and ventilated using wind-catching towers, an ancient architectural element found throughout the Middle East. [Guggenheim]

At TEDxSummit, Walters Art Museum curator William Noel gave this fascinating talk on revealing the lost codex of Archimedes. The TED Blog caught up with him to talk about the digital future of a traditionally closed institution: the art museum.

As with the Archimedes codex, the Walters Art Museum’s online collection operates under the Creative Commons license. I can’t imagine that many museums join the Walters in this respect; why did the museum decide to opt for that license as opposed to something more restrictive?

The decision was actually driven by our experiences with the Archimedes manuscript and making all that data available under a Creative Commons license. When we started imaging our manuscripts at the Walters, we did the same. We just think that Creative Commons data is real data. It’s data that people can really use. It’s all about access, and access is about several things: licensing and publishing the raw data. Any data that you capture should be available to be the public. For our manuscripts, that’s what we’ve done.

The other important thing is to put the data in places where people can find it — making the data, as it were, promiscuous. That means putting it on Flickr, Pinterest, that sort of thing; these are forums people are used to using and commenting on, which they already use to build datasets of their own.

The Walters is a museum that’s free to the public, and to be public these days is to be on the Internet. Therefore to be a public museum your digital data should be free. And the great thing about digital data, particularly of historic collections, is that they’re the greatest advert that these collections have. So: Why on Earth would you limit how people can use them? The digital data is not a threat to the real data, it’s just an advertisement that only increases the aura of the original, so there just doesn’t seem to be any point in putting restrictions on the data. There is the further fact that the data is funded by taxpayers’ money. So it didn’t seem fair to limit what taxpayers could do with the data that they paid for.

I’m not in a position to speak for other institutions, but sometimes you can’t digitize your collections because you don’t have the money, and that’s fair enough. But what I would say is that getting the public, both scholars and the general public, to pay for digital images … this is sort of an open secret, but in the vast majority of cases, this is not a business model that works. There really wasn’t a reason not to do a Creative Commons license, and it was foundational to what we wanted to do. One of the issues is that a lot of people who are in a position to make decisions vis-à-vis a special collection don’t really understand the difference between a digital object and the real object. That’s a structural problem that will change; I really passionately believe this.

One last thing: Data is going to die if it’s not used, so you want your data to be as easily usable as possible, and a Creative Commons license is an integral part of that.

You ask in your talk “what’s in it for the institution?” Being a publicly funded institution means something a lot different than being privately funded. Can you expand on what you think is “in it” for the institution to use Creative Commons licensing?

Institutions with special collections, particularly museums — libraries perhaps less so — want to improve their brand and raise visitorship. One way in which they can do that is through advertising. And what better way to advertise than by making instantly available, or as available as possible, images of their collections? Because that’s how they get known. What I say in a very abbreviated form in my talk is that people go to the Louvre because they’ve seen the Mona Lisa; the reason people might not be going to an institution is because they don’t know what’s in your institution. Digitization is a way to address that issue, in a way that with medieval manuscripts, it simply wasn’t possible before. People go to museums because they go and see what they already know, so you’ve got to make your collections known. Frankly, you can write about it, but the best thing you can do is to put out free images of it. This is not something you do out of generosity, this is something you do because it makes branding sense, and it even makes business sense. So that’s what’s in it for the institution.

The other main reason to do it is to increase the knowledge of and research on your collection by the people, which has to be part of your mission at least, even in the most conservative of institutions. People can find out more about your materials, work on them, and add knowledge to your collections. And that’s good for everybody, not just institutions. That’s what history is, and that’s what makes history alive.

These days we’re not trying to preserve Archimedes’ intellectual property. When do you think a piece of art or text becomes the property of the public, as opposed to belonging to the author or the artist?

There are plenty of legal precedents for establishing the estate of authors and painters and that sort of thing. One of the great luxuries of being a fan of the Middle Ages, like me, is that I don’t have to worry about it. I only have to make sure that the digital images that I capture of these things are available under free licensing and there’s no restrictive copyright on the images. I’m just very glad I’m not advocating for this in the 20th century. Institutions that have modern collections are in a fundamentally different position.

The right of the artist is one reason people might resist the “freeing” of data.

My answer to that is sure, but of course it shouldn’t be applied to the Middle Ages! Actually libraries containing special collections of medieval materials are normally very careful to write restrictive copyright on their materials. Part of this is historical; that is to say, when images of these manuscripts were published in books, it didn’t have to behave like digital data, and it didn’t have to be free for people to use in all sorts of ways and in different contexts. The images were just reproduced in other books. But those days are fast running out, and digital images need to be free, so that people can do what they need to do with them and what they want to do with them. That’s the great thing about digital data!

So part of that is historical: You used to restrict the use of your books to try and make money off reproductions in other books. It was expensive, but it wasn’t crippling. Today these copyright restrictions are now crippling scholarship and access by the general public. The other thing is that a lot of these collections are in national institutions, university libraries, and they are the prized cultural heritage of these institutions. The policymakers in those institutions don’t like the idea that reproductions of these images can be available for free. It feels to them like you are denigrating your greatest asset. That’s a state of mind that belongs to my grandfather — for whom I have great affection, but to whom I don’t listen much anymore.

When you can access something for free, a piece of music or a piece of text, what is the incentive to pay for it, to get in your car to go see something?

Because you want something that is not a collection of ones and naughts made sense out of a style sheet. You want to go to something that is made literally of flesh, rather than organized energy that is going to disappear at the press of a keystroke. There is nothing like touching history, smelling history, reading it from a 700-year-old book. There are lots of things that digital data can do, things that medieval manuscripts cannot do — aggregating, virtually putting together a medieval library of things which are not disparate, searching it once it’s been transcribed — but there’s a lot digitizing an object can’t do. And for that, people are going to have to go and consult or see the original. (But the way the public is going to see that the original is there is by first seeing a digital avatar on the web. That’s the point.)

Do you think there’s a place in the future for that mentality which wants to preserve cultural heritage by keeping it behind closed doors?

It’s not over. Much more survives from the Middle Ages than people think, and the job of digitizing our medieval heritage is truly enormous, so it’s going to take time. At the end of the day there might be some holdouts, but they’re going to be utterly marginalized and, frankly, derided. And they won’t be allowing their great cultural treasures to contribute to the course of historical study.

Where is the Archimedes palimpsest now?

The vast majority of it has been returned to its owner, who is anonymous. An exhibition opens in Hildesheim, Germany on Sunday, June 3, and several leaves of the palimpsest will be there. In early 2014 there’s going to be a exhibition including 20 leaves at the Huntington Library in Los Angeles.

What’s the next step for you?

We’re still digitizing our medieval manuscripts. We just got a new grant to digitize 100 manuscripts of Flemish treasures. One of the things that we’re going to do is try and make our data as promiscuous as possible, to advocate for it, to integrate it with other initiatives that are being built on the user end. And my personal goal for the future is to make as much medieval data as possible available in its raw form to be used for any non-commercial purpose.

At TEDxSummit last month, Herbert Reininger from TEDxPSU shot this moment of classic Hans. Can you explain the world in ten rocks?

We’ve heard the statistics. Obesity has more than doubled worldwide since 1980. For the first time in history, being overweight is killing more people than being underweight. At least 2.8 million adults die each year as a result of being overweight or obese. Where do we begin to tackle such an immense problem?

There is not one single solution, but there are two key paths: getting moving and eating better. We must change our habits and promote better living.

Today, May 19, Food Revolution Day is a day for people who love food to get back to the basics. To become a conscious community and understand our daily food choices. Learning to cook from scratch is at the heart of the movement. Food Revolution Day can empower everyone to start.

People around the globe are connecting with their community through events at homes, schools, restaurants, local businesses, and farmers’ markets — at food events and dinner parties. You can join one or throw your own today. Do you want to bring the revolution to your company or your school? Check out the toolkits.

Learn more about Food Revolution Day >>

Below, watch Jamie Oliver’s video message to TEDxers, announcing Food Revolution Day:

TEDxMogadishu — the first TEDx event in Somalia — will happen tomorrow, May 17, and livestreamed around the world.

Update: Read press reports from TEDxMogadishu >>

On May 17, between 50 and 100 people from diverse backgrounds will attend the event to listen to Somalis discuss the rebirth of Mogadishu. The event will be livestreamed for Somalis who can’t attend (e.g., the diaspora) and people who are interested to learn about the positive changes happening in Mogadishu.

The goal of the organizing team is to build a foundation for more events in the future, and to hopefully give Mogadishu a steady and fresh platform for spreading ideas. We spoke to team member Sebastian Lindstrom about the event:

Why Mogadishu — what led you to organize a TEDx here?

We had an opportunity to go to Mogadishu to film the opening of First Somali Bank, and while planning this trip, we brainstormed with Somalis living in the city about how to further share the positive stories taking place. TEDx has become a worldwide movement for sharing ideas and innovations taking place at the local level, and it seemed like a great fit. Mogadishu is changing, and while some in the media have picked up on it, the general perception of Mogadishu remains negative. We feel it’s important to share what’s really happening and we want to showcase positive stories for those who care about this dynamic city.

Who are the locals you’re working with?

We are working with Liban Egal, the founder of First Somali Bank, and his team in Mogadishu. They have linked the organizing team to a wide variety of Somalis — those who have returned to Somalia over the past few years and those who have lived through the conflict — who are supporting this initiative in various ways. We are crowdsourcing from the Somali and Somali diaspora’s Twittersphere to track down resources and awareness. Basically, it’s all very much a team effort on a worldwide Somali basis.

How did you choose the theme of your event — does it relate directly to the political situation, or is there a broader meaning?

The theme focuses on positive changes happening in Mogadishu, irrespective of the political situation. Many Somalis think Mogadishu has recently reached a turning point now that there is no active fighting inside the city for the first time in decades. There are thousands of Somalis returning home to open businesses, buildings sprouting up and being reconstructed, and there is a real sense of rebirth in a marginalized, misrepresented community that feels that its time has come. We realized this was the right moment to hold the event. So on the 17th a group of Somalis from different walks of life will share their stories of how Mogadishu is changing and their ideas for the future — this is TEDxMogadishu.

What are some of the challenges you knew you would face?

Safety concerns. Even though Mogadishu is changing, there remain significant security concerns that we cannot disregard. We are taking ample precautions so that adequate security will be in place. We are comforted by the fact that we’re holding an apolitical event with no agenda other than providing a platform for Somalis to communicate positive changes happening in this city to the world.

The second biggest challenge was timing and communication. Remote organization isn’t possible, so much was done on the ground over the past week. However, this city tends to operate quite last minute, so it hasn’t been a problem to find great speakers and attendees.

What’s a challenge that was completely unexpected?

Isolation anxiety. Because of security reasons, you cannot, as a foreigner, openly walk the streets of Mogadishu. So, you end up spending a lot of time in one place, which can result in a case of island fever.

What did you expect to be challenging, and wasn’t at all?

We thought that finding a venue was going to be a huge problem, but it worked out superbly.

What’s one thing about Mogadishu and Somalia that you wish everyone knew?

Despite its perception, Mogadishu is a beautiful city filled with hard working and extremely entrepreneurial Somalis. Both Somalis at home, and those in the diaspora, are optimistic that a turning point has been reached after 21 years of conflict.

Tell me about your speakers!

Speakers will include a wide range of Somalis and one foreigner. Some have recently returned to Mogadishu and others have lived through the conflict. They include: a chef and restauranteur, a real estate developer, the founder of a university, the founder of the First Somali bank, a healthcare specialist, someone who works with rape victims and former child soldiers, a Somali journalist, a camel milk mobilizer and more.

And tell me one speaker’s story …

Elle Elman will give a talk about her work with rape and sexual assault victims and the rehabilitation of child soldiers. Her father started the Elman Peace and Human Rights Centre and was an ardent peace activist in the 1990s, who coined the slogan “Put down the gun, pick up a pen.” He was killed in 1996 for trying to promote peace in Somalia. Elle left for Canada and three years ago came back to support her mother’s work with that same organization; more on the organization and her mother can be found here and here.

She is of the new generation in Somalia and has returned to her country during these difficult times.

Read these stories about her father, which are good to mention, since he was one of the initial major peace advocates; and people in Mogadishu know his name well.

Check out the website for the event: www.TEDxMogadishu.com

Follow on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TEDxMogadishu

Follow on Twitter: @TEDxMogadishu

Email for more information: info@TEDxMogadishu.com

Our pals at What Took You So Long sent over a set of treated photos from TEDxSummit with an accent on TED red … explore on our +TEDx page.

Photos by Alicia Sully, Sebastian Lindstrom and Pedro Julio Ramirez Paz.