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Class Flow: National Geographic Survey
[Free Registration/Login Required] How much do you know about the world around us? Questions provided by National Geographic Survey. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/roper2006/findings.html
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Rise of Divorce
This Wide Angle video features the Arab women of an all-female talk show discussing the rising divorce rates in the Middle East.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Changes in Turkey
In this Wide Angle video, learn how the owner of a clothing manufacturer that creates conservative fashions for Turkish women has balanced his devout faith and commerce.
BBC
Bbc: Egypt's Revolution: Egypt Under Sisi
The BBC has created a special section for the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. Find special features, an event by event timeline as well as an interactive map that traces the Egyptian revolution from January 25, 2011. Profiles of key people...
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.
Mariners' Museum and Park
Mariners' Museum: Education: Arab Exploration: Ibn Buttuta
This resources provides brief biography of Ibn Buttuta, the Arab traveler who covered over 75,000 miles during the fourteenth century. Link to map of his voyages provided.
The History Cat
The History Cat: Age of Imperialism: Gandhi: Indian Freedom Fighter
The story of Mohandas Gandhi and how he led the nonviolent rebellion against British rule in India, resulting in India's independence. It also led to religious conflict between Hindus and Muslims who wanted separate countries (i.e.,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Great Mosque of Cordoba
Known locally as Mezquita-Catedral, the Great Mosque of Cordoba is one of the oldest structures still standing from the time Muslims ruled Al-Andalus. View pictures and read descriptions of this example of Islamic architecture in this...
PBS
Pbs: The Road North
This site is an account of the fighting that broke out in northern Nigeria when a Christian writer had noted that "The Prophet Muhammed would surely have picked one of the Miss World contestants as his wife." To Muslims, this was...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: Diverse Turkish Women
This Wide Angle video segment compares two women in Turkey, one from a more religious family, and the other from a more secular family. [3:51]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: Ataturk
This Wide Angle video segment illustrates Islamic and secular elements of life in Turkey, and introduces Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the first president of Turkey, and his reforms. Focuses on fashion, specifically Islamic dress in response to...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Industry and Islam
This Wide Angle video segment explores economic and religious development in Kayseri, a city in central Turkey.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Political Debate in Turkey
A hot topic of debate in Turkey is the possibility of an increasingly Islamic state in this historically secular country. Learn more in this video from Wide Angle.
Travel Document Systems
Tds: Albania: People
A good look at the ethnic groups in Albania, their religions, and language. Information is from the U.S. State Dept. Background Notes.
Travel Document Systems
Tds: Morocco: People
Read about the people of Morocco, their languages, religion, education, and their cities. Information is from the U.S. State Dept. Background Notes.
Travel Document Systems
Tds: Sudan: Government
This is a very current look at the government of Sudan, the attempt at reconciliation between north and south, and the on-going problems in Darfur. Information is from the U.S. State Dept. Background Notes.
BBC
Bbc: News: Country Profile: Lebanon
The BBC discusses the country of Lebanon which is at the center of much of the conflict in the Middle East. Gives an overview of its history, talks about its leadership, provides a timeline of key events, and links to other key stories.
Curated OER
Unesco: Spain: Santiago De Compostela (Old Town)
This famous pilgrimage site in north-west Spain became a symbol in the Spanish Christians' struggle against Islam. Destroyed by the Muslims at the end of the 10th century, it was completely rebuilt in the following century. With its...
Curated OER
Unesco: Pakistan: Rohtas Fort
Following his defeat of the Mughal emperor Humayun in 1541, Sher Shah Suri built a strong fortified complex at Rohtas, a strategic site in the north of what is now Pakistan. It was never taken by storm and has survived intact to the...
Curated OER
Unesco: Spain: Palmeral of Elche
The Palmeral of Elche, a landscape of groves of date palms, was formally laid out, with elaborate irrigation systems, at the time the Muslim city of Elche was erected, towards the end of the tenth century A.C., when much of the Iberian...
Curated OER
Unesco: Spain: Old Town of Caceres
The city's history of battles between Moors and Christians is reflected in its architecture, which is a blend of Roman, Islamic, Northern Gothic and Italian Renaissance styles. Of the 30 or so towers from the Muslim period, the Torre del...
Curated OER
Unesco: Russian Federation: Historic and Architectural Complex of Kazan Kremlin
Built on an ancient site, the Kazan Kremlin dates from the Muslim period of the Golden Horde and the Kazan Khanate. It was conquered by Ivan the Terrible in 1552 and became the Christian See of the Volga Land. The only surviving Tatar...
Curated OER
Unesco: Morocco: Rabat, Modern Capital and Historic City: A Shared Heritage
Located on the Atlantic coast in the north-west of Morocco, the site is the product of a fertile exchange between the Arabo-Muslim past and Western modernism. The inscribed city encompasses the new town conceived and built under the...
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001
At this site from The Nobel Foundation you can read about V.S. Naipaul, the man who won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature. His life and works are discussed in this detailed website,providing video, original texts and speeches and...
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