CONTACT US
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
845 N. Park Avenue
Marshall Bldg Room 470
P.O.Box 210158-B
Tucson, AZ 85721-0158
Tel: (520) 621-5450
Fax: (520) 621-9257
sbs-cmes@email.arizona.edu
Center Director
Anne H. Betteridge
845 N. Park Avenue
Marshall Bldg Room 471
P.O.Box 210158-B
Tel: (520) 621-5456
Fax: (520) 621-9257
anneb@email.arizona.edu
Background and Information Sheets
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For Teachers
- Muslim Resistance to the Holocaust: Historical and Pedagogical Implications (a research paper and a bibliography of related books/DVDs for secondary teachers). Links: the paper, the works cited section of the paper, and the teachers' resource list
- Discussion Prompt/Mini-Lesson on Iranian Identity Using a YouTube Rap Video. An overviewfor teachers and a handout (song lyrics, notes) for students.
- The Ottoman Empire: Teachable Issues (click here - and be sure to toggle on the notes so that you can read them as well as the slides.)
- Islam: Myths and Realities (notes and powerpoint for a stereotype-busting introduction to Islam that can be adapted for middle school students through adult learners). For a great opening to the lesson, use the short, thought-provoking music video from YouTube that shows the diversity of American Muslims: A Land Called Paradise. *Also you can give out the "Quick Facts about Islam" handout below.
- Middle East: Myths and Realities (notes and powerpoint). Similar to the Islam presentation, this gives a broad overview of the Middle East.
- Travels in Iran: A Teacher's Journal (click here for New York teacher Louise Forsyth's impressions of Iran)
- The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire (powerpoint with notes - the notes can be toggled on and off) about the reasons for and circumstances surrounding the end of the Ottoman Empire)
- Countering Anti-Islamic Rhetoric: a list of resources about Islam
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For Teachers and Students
- Quick Facts about Islam (a 2-page intro. to Islam - that can be printed on both sides of a single sheet)
- Persian New Year (No Ruz) (a 2-page intro. to a major holiday, celebrated in Iran and other countries in central/western Asia)
- Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (a short intro. to the origins of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Part 1 gives the background to 1948; Part 2 gives on overview of the issues since the creation of the state of Israel)
- Fringes of the Middle East: Bosnia (a brief, 5-page overview of Bosnia from its medieval - Ottoman - roots through modern times)
- Fringes of the Middle East: Kosovo (a brief, 2-page overview of the historical roots of the Kosovo crisis of the 1990s)
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Who Are the Kurds? (a brief, 3-page fact sheet about the Kurdish people)