Take students on an interactive visual tour through two 16th-century Persian paintings that beautifully illustrate urban and rural life in a Muslim context. This engaging activity features high resolution images of the paintings with roll-over textboxes to guide teachers and students through the rich details.
Fact Sheet (PDF)
Fact Sheet (PDF)
The Outreach Center has produced a one-page fact sheet (PDF) on Gaza to help familiarize students with the region. A list of nonprofits and NGOs with further information about Gaza and its current situation is included in Gaza Resources (PDF).
Find works that connect your students to the peoples, cultures, and histories of Israel and Palestine in Young Adult Literature on Israel/Palestine (PDF). All books are available for loan from The Outreach Center Library.
A one-page fact sheet (PDF) with demographic and environmental statistics from the United Arab Emirates.
The Outreach Center produces occasional curriculum guides for teaching about various topics on the Middle East and Islam. These guides areavailable as PDF downloads and can be used in conjunction with materials from our library (books, films, CDs, realia).
This very popular anthology, produced by the Outreach Center, consists of short stories and excerpts from memoirs and novels written by indigenous authors and translated and adapted for the U.S. classroom.
Theanthology includes stories from Turkey, Israel, Iran, and the Arab world, tested and selected for their cultural richness and their appealto young adults. It includes curriculum units for each, extensive background notes, a glossary of Middle Eastern words and phrases, and acomprehensive bibliography related to the themes and issues in thestories as further reference for teachers and students.
To provide educators with faster and more efficient access to the anthology, we are no longer printing copies for sale. Rather, educators can download the entire anthology and reprint it for classroom use themselves, provided that they credit the Center for Middle Eastern Studies appropriately.
Are You Listening? (PDF) Please note: this is a 13.6 MB file.
Lesson plans and materials created by teachers for teachers.
The Outreach Center is occassionally able to record lecturers brought in to speak to teachers and make the audo recordings available here on the site. Hear Brian Whitaker, a reporter from the London Guardian, speak about life for homosexual life in the Middle East.
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