On living the single life | Jasmina Najjar | TEDxLAU

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Do we need to get married to achieve happiness? Why are we bombarded with 'self-help' guidance on how to be single and happy? As if the default mode is to be miserably single?
Jasmina Najjar is, among many other things, the author of Beirut Knights, a book on Lebanese dating disasters.
Raised in London, Jasmina Najjar moved to Lebanon only to find herself eternally single with wacky dating disasters and a daily dose of bittersweet "when are you getting married?" pressure. She loves to read and her BA in English Literature and MA in Literature, Culture and Modernity prove it.
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