Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Kurds
The Kurds have inhabited an area of rugged mountains and high plains at the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for over two thousand years. Their traditional mode of subsistence is pastoralism and agriculture. The territory...
BBC
Bbc: News: Regions and Territories: Golan Heights Profile
Provides historical background on the Golan Heights with emphasis on the conflict between Syria and Israel. Includes a map and links to recent news articles. Updated January 2008.
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Association of Religion Data Archives: National Profiles: Syria
Learn about religion in Syria, in this Association of Religion Data Archives country profile; includes general facts, history, and religious data.
Other
Esri: The Uprooted
This resource provides a useful interactive map, charts, and other information connected to the global refugee crisis. The crisis areas featured include Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Syrian Americans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Syrian Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current and does not reflect the recent war in Syria.)
Other
Teaching Kids News: Assad Regime Takes Aleppo
The world is watching the Syrian city of Aleppo. The city, the nation, is in a heated civil war and Aleppo is in the center of if all.
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France in Lebanon and Syria
A discussion of the French mandate to rule part of the newly divided Arab land and how it divided it into Syria and newly created Lebanon.
Ducksters
Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Yom Kippur War
Kids learn the history of the Yom Kippur War when Egypt and Syria attacked Israel. Israel fought back.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Egypt and Syria, 1912
A map of Egypt showing the major cities of the Nile Delta and the Nile River south to Assouan at the First Cataract in Upper Egypt.
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Unesco: Syria: Ancient City of Damascus
Founded in the 3rd millennium B.C., Damascus is one of the oldest cities in the Middle East. In the Middle Ages, it was the centre of a flourishing craft industry, specializing in swords and lace. The city has some 125 monuments from...
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: The Ji Khanate
Description of how the Mongols invaded Iraq and Syria and the effect these invasions had on these countries and Islam.
United Nations
Unesco: Ancient City of Bosra
The ancient city of Bosra, a World Heritage site, is located in Syria. It was the capital of Arabia under the Romans, and sits along the route to Mecca taken by ancient travelers. It has monuments from the Nabataean, Roman, Byzantine and...
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Colorful Islamic Headscarves in a Damascus Market
NPR reports on the neighboring countries to Iraq in the Middle East: Jordan, Syria, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia. How are these countries coping with the violence so close at hand? The report contains audio and a series of pictures taken in...
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Npr: Bordering on Instability
NPR reports on the neighboring countries to Iraq in the Middle East: Jordan, Syria, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia. How are these countries coping with the violence so close at hand? The report contains audio and a series of pictures taken in...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Druze
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of the Druze people in the Middle East. Gives basic facts about location, language, folklore, foods, social customs, family life, education, religion, pastimes, societal...
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Etc: Plan of Church of Kalb Lauzeh, Ad 380 609
This is a plan of the church of Kalb-Lauzeh (Qalb Lozeh), Syria. This is an example of Early Christian architecture.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Genocide Timeline
A chronology of the development of the idea of "genocide" and the legalities which have developed since the mid 20th century to prosecute perpetrators of genocide around the world.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Art of West Asia
Ten thousand years of art produced in West Asia is displayed at this Metropolitan Museum site in timeline format. The earliest examples date from 8000 B.C., with information on key historical events as well as details of each artifact.
Choices Program, Brown University
Choices: Teaching With the News: Isis: A New Threat
Learning module with comprehensive and relevant resources from which students explore the role of ISIS in the Middle East and U.S. response. Site inlcudes handouts, video, and primary source material for analysis and interpretation.
BBC
Bbc: Week of 6 23 14: Is This the End of Iraq?
Learn about the most recent attacks that Iraqi citizens have been under, and why this is putting the nation in peril.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Syrians
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Syrians. Gives basic facts about location, language, folklore, foods, social customs, family life, education, religion, pastimes, societal challenges, etc. (Note: Content...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Church at Kalb Louzeh
Christian architecture is Syria diverged from Roman traditions. The abundance of hard stone, the total lack of clay or brick, the remoteness from Rome, led to a peculiar independence and originality in the forms and details of the...
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A Syrian Soldier in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon
A recent biography of the president of Syria. He came to power in 2000 with the death of his father.
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