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Participants in the Boston University Academy for Arabic Teachers worked with the Outreach Center on Wednesday 29 July to discuss the use of Arabic language resources in film for teaching Arabic.

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Click on the headline for details from the event and to borrow "Slingshot Hip Hop" from the Outreach Center. 

The Outreach Center works with local teachers of Arabic as a foreign language to promote Arabic studies and share best practices. 

Details from a recent classroom visit where students explored current issues through the lens of film. 

Click on the headline for photos and more details of the second annual Egypt Forum. 

Click on the headline for more details, and for a lesson plan on early 20th-century Kemalist reforms in Turkey.

The students' visit was part of the Outreach Center's Open Campus Initiative.

The two day, two university event called attention to the recent events in Gaza.

Click on the headline for downloadable resources on teaching about refugees using films from the Middle East region. 

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Members of the Harvard and greater Boston communities gathered to celebrate this annual rite of spring with traditional food and a cultural program. 

Read on for details of the talk and a one-page resource on sustainability and the U.A.E.

The first class of the Egypt Forum 2009 took place on Saturday 28 February at CMES. It met to begin the academic portion of the Egypt Forum, an intensive leadership program on Middle East and Islam and Muslim community studies that is focused on Egypt.

Highlights and pictures from the second annual Nowruz event.

Local educators gathered to share ideas and create a new network related to Arabic instruction. 

Seventy-four 7th and 8th grade students visited the Outreach Center to make hummus.

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The event took place at Beaver Country Day School on January 14th. 

The Outreach Center is now accepting applications for this exciting new study abroad opportunity.

An exciting study abroad opportunity for local educators.

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The one-day seminar offered practical solutions for a complex subject.

A group of local students from Hingham High School explores the Middle East at Harvard

Reserve a copy of our Celebrating Ramadan kit before September!

Announcing the results of the first educator survey of resources and curriculum needs for teaching on the Middle East region.

New England teachers return from study program in Egypt.

The Outreach Center is pleased to present this new education program.

Professor Asani’s lecture, titled "Teaching Islam in Context", was the second in a series of five “Islam in Context” lectures taking place over the 2007-08 academic year. 

The Outreach Center, along with the Outreach Program of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, is announcng a new lecture series to take place over the 2007-08 academic year.

On November 14th, The Outreach Centers of CMES and The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies held the first of five lectures in their "Islam in Context" Series. Following a brief synopsis of the discussion, click on the audio link to listen to Dr. Thomas Simons' lecture.

The Outreach Center, along with the Middle East Initiative at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, is announcing the first of several films as part of our Middle East Film Series. The series continues on Tuesday February 12th, 2008 with the film "Live and Become". Click here for more information and a complete listing of the fims to be shown.

The Outreach Center, in collaboration with Primary Source, is announcing a new Summer Institute for middle school teachers on topics concerning the contemporary Middle East.

The Outreach Center is proud to announce these new award-winning additions to our Resource Library!

The Outreach Center, in collaboration with Primary Source, is presenting a late afternoon lecture series this fall entitled Contested Faiths: Islam and Muslims in the Contemporary World.

This August, The Outreach Center coordinated, in partnership with Primary Source in Watertown and the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, a week-long intensive educators’ institute on Unmuddling the Modern Middle East.

On November 17 –18, The Outreach Center and the Middle East Outreach Council invited educators to a two-day conference on Learning about Islam and the Middle East through the Arts. The conference featured explorations of the visual, sound and literary arts of the classical and contemporary Middle East and Muslim societies in the belief that learning about these cultures through their artistic production opens up new avenues of understanding and appreciation.