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Metrocosm: 7 Maps to Help Make Sense of the Middle East
Keep up to date with the everchanging Middle East Region. The Middle East has been a tangled web of alliances since WWI. These maps attempt to make sense out of the this often confusing area. The 7 maps show the relationships among...
Middle East Policy Council
Mepc: Teach Mideast: Comparing Maps of the Middle East
A lesson plan to explore the Middle East region via maps and classroom discussion to better understand the Middle East. An Internet connection is needed to utilize the links provided.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: The Middle East in the 20th Century
Examining the history of the Middle East from the Ottoman Empire through to the present. Enhance lessons with these resources.
Choices Program, Brown University
Choices: u.s. Policy in the Middle East: Analyzing Political Cartoons
Multi-media resources including video, PowerPoint, articles and maps from which students explore current issues in the Middle East and their relation to U.S. policy and interpret political cartoons on Middle East politics.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Middle East During and After Wwi
Test your knowledge of the Middle East during WWI with this five question self-correcting quiz from Khan Academy.
University of Chicago
University of Chicago Library: Teaching the Middle East: Foreign Eyes
Two related learning modules consider Western perspectives on the Middle East, beginning with the Persian invasions of Greece (fifth century BC) and moving forward into the present time. Useful background on the history of wartime and...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: North Africa and the Middle East
With the establishment of the Vichy regime in France and pro-Hitler leaders in Iraq, the persecution of Jews fanned out to North Africa and the Middle East. Peruse background information and examine primary sources such as photos,...
University of Chicago
University of Chicago Library: Teaching the Middle East: Question of Identity
Learning module considers questions of identity among populations of the Middle East, both ancient and modern, in terms of their ethnicities, language spoken, religious affiliation, and gender.
University of Chicago
University of Chicago Library: Teaching the Middle East: Resource for Educators
An overview of the cultures, contributions, history, peoples, and geography of the Middle East developed specifically for educators. Learning modules, essays, maps, scholarly perspectives, resource and image banks, framing questions, and...
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Eisenhower Doctrine on the Middle East
Contains the actual text to the Eisenhower Doctrine on the Middle East, Eisenhower's speech to Congress on January 5, 1957.
United Nations
United Nations: The Middle East
This is the official page for The Middle East from the United Nations. You will find up-to-the-minute reports by the Secretary-General, Security Council, General Assembly as well as news on relief efforts and links to more UN information...
University of Chicago
University of Chicago Library: Teaching the Middle East: Writing: Islamic Period
Learning module considers the literature of the Middle East after the arrival of Islam. Discusses the development of the Koran and a variety of poetic forms.
PBS
Wide Angle: Interactive Map: Middle East
An interactive map that shows the countries of the Middle East in 2003. Gives information such as population, government, and history about each country.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Introduction to the Middle East
The term "Middle East" is generally recognized today to refer to a region that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to Afghanistan in the east. It encompasses the countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Israel,...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Jews of the Middle East
Prior to 1948, Jewish communties were found discontinuously in an area stretching from southwest Asia across North Africa, from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in the north to Yemen in the south, and from Afghanistan in the east to Morocco in...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Middle East
The Middle East is home to a rich history of art, reflecting the histories and diversity of its cultures. This article focuses on artists who furthered the modernist tradition in the Middle East.
CommonLit
Common Lit: A Quest for Change in the Middle East
A learning module that begins Mike Kubic's article "A Quest for Change in the Middle East" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: The Cold War in Asia and the Middle East
Overview outlining the Cold War conflict spread as Communist government's took over in China, Korea and the Middle East.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: World Geography: Oil in the Middle East and Africa
Learners develop and express claims through discussion and writing which examine the importance of oil and water to the success and survival of the Middle East and North Africa.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Middle East
A page that is updated daily with NPR news and special reports from across the Middle East. Also provides direct access to several thousand archived NPR stories on the Middle East with audio and transcripts available.
The British Museum
British Museum: Explore World Cultures: Islamic Middle East
Learn about Islamic art of the middle east in this historical overview with accompanying image gallery of relevant object images from the British Museum collection.
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Constitutional Rights Foundation: Turkey: An Evolving Democracy in the Middle East
Activity for students in which they survey historical and current events of Turkey, analyze the intersection of government, democracy, and religion, and finally, identify the criteria of a democratic and stable government. Group and...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Seminar on Politics and Conflict in the Middle East
Exploring the history and changes in the politics and economics in the Middle East, rely on some of these resources to enhance lessons.
Other
Jcpa: A Commodity in Scarcity: Politics of Water in the Middle East
This essay from 1994 discusses the issue of water scarcity in the Middle East. It describes the problem and proposes solutions.