Wheel of Pharaoh

In this activity, elementary students practice what the …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Webpage
School Level: Elementary
Institution/Provider: Discovery Education

Middle East in the Kitchen

This lesson for a middle school level home economics/cu …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Downloadable File
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Alameda County Office of Education

Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (NEA)

This is the website for the U.S.Department of State’s   …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Streaming Video, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: U.S. Department of State

The Middle East 1916-2001: A Documentary Record

This online collection of primary source documents from …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: The Avalon Project, Lillian Goldman Law Library (Yale Law School)

The Palestine Poster Project

This is a digital collection of posters from or referen …

Language of Presentation: Arabic, English, Other
Media Format: Image/Photo, Streaming Video, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: The Palestine Poster Project Archives, Liberation Graphics

Muslim Women and Soccer

This five-lesson teaching unit explores the role of spo …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider:

Life of an Iranian Teenager

In this five lesson teaching unit, middle school studen …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider:

Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2015: Regional Overview – Arab States

This report summarizes the progress made in the first f …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Downloadable File
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Education For All, UNESCO

Inside Story – Why is ISIL Targeting Cultural Heritage?

This edition of Inside Story from Al Jazeera English ex …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Streaming Video
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Al Jazeera English

Arabic Countries Jeopardy

This is a lesson plan for Novice-Mid to Novice-High stu …

Language of Presentation: Arabic
Media Format: Downloadable File
School Level: College/University, Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider:

Sufism

This video provides an introduction to Sufism, its rela …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Streaming Video, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: WNET

100 Years in Mesopotamia: A Century of Conflict in Iraq, 1914-2014

This two-week unit plan was created for 9th grade Moder …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Downloadable File
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider:

The Middle East Friendship Chart

This infographic depicts the terms of the relationships …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: The Slate Group LLC

Friends and Enemies in the Middle East

This useful interactive infographic from The Guardian d …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Information is Beautiful & Univers Lab

Middle East and North Africa Geography

In this lesson plan, students learn not only the curren …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: NewsHour Productions LLC

Dead Sea Fact Sheet/Handout

Heading to the Dead Sea or want to talk about environme …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Downloadable File
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider:

Amman Citadel Info Sheet

Taking your students to Jordan and want information abo …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Downloadable File
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider:

MIT Global Shakespeares: Arab World

MIT Global Shakespeares is a project/website seeking to …

Language of Presentation: Arabic, English
Media Format: Streaming Video, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Global Shakespeare Video Archive

In the Country of Men: Teaching Guide

This teaching guide to Hisham Matar’s novel In the Coun …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Penguin Random House

Waltz With Bashir: Study Notes

This guide to the animated documentary Waltz With Bashi …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Downloadable File
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Film Education

Mustafa Akyol: Faith Versus Tradition in Islam

Mustafa Akyol explores the origins of cultural practice …

Language of Presentation: Arabic, English, French, Other, Spanish
Media Format: Streaming Video
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider:

Karima Bennoune: When People of Muslim Heritage Challenge Fundamentalism

Starting with her experience growing up in Algeria duri …

Language of Presentation: Arabic, English, French, Other, Spanish
Media Format: Streaming Video
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: TED Conferences, LLC

Suzanne Talhouk: Don’t Kill Your Language

In this TED Talk, Suzanne Talhouk argues impassionately …

Language of Presentation: Arabic, English, French, Other, Spanish
Media Format: Streaming Video
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: TED Conferences, LLC

Bahia Shehab: A Thousand Times No

In this short TED Talk, Bahia Shehab lays out key messa …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Streaming Video
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: TED Conferences, LLC

Benedetta Berti: The Surprising Way Groups Like ISIS Stay in Power

In this TED Talk, Benedetta Berti introduces how violen …

Language of Presentation: Arabic, English, French, Other, Spanish
Media Format: Streaming Video
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: TED Conferences, LLC

Debunking Stereotypes About Muslims and Islam

This lesson from Teaching Tolerance focuses on challeng …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Teaching Tolerance, Southern Poverty Law Center

Intelwire

Intelwire  is an online resource for terrorism analysis …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Image/Photo, Streaming Video, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Intelwire

5,000-year-old Echoes of Humanity: Baalbek, Lebanon

This lesson examines music and dance from the Middle Ea …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Downloadable File
School Level: Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Smithsonian Folkways

Egypt: The Bedouin Culture

This lesson explores Bedouin culture in Egypt through m …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Downloadable File
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Smithsonian Folkways

Ooooh, the Oud

This lesson for elementary students introduces them to …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Downloadable File
School Level: Elementary
Institution/Provider: Smithsonian Folkways

Middle East Institute

The Middle East Institute is a non-partisan think tank …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Middle East Institute

The Islamic State

The Islamic State is a documentary on ISIS (ISIL) edite …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Streaming Video
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: VICE News

Inside the Middle East

Inside the Middle East is CNN programming that provides …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Streaming Video, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.

How the Earth Was Made: Sahara

This episode from How the Earth Was Made focuses on the …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Streaming Video
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: History Channel

The History of Cartography: Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies

This is an online version of a part of The History of C …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: University of Chicago

Crash Course World History

These videos from Crash Course are engaging introductio …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Streaming Video, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Crash Course

Israel at 60

This collection of articles and webpages from the BBC l …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: BBC

The World’s Muslims: Unity and Diversity

“The World’s Muslims: Unity and Diversity” is a study c …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Pew Research Center

At the Intersection of Politics, Religion and Government

This slideshow accompanies an article from The New York …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Image/Photo, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: The New York Times Company

Middle East & North Africa

This is the landing page for stories about the Middle E …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: International Crisis Group

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Through Children’s Eyes

This lesson plan explores competing perspectives on the …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Education World, Inc

ADC Educational Resources

This is a page of resources for educators from the Amer …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee

Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal!

In this lesson, students learn about the ghazal, a form …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

Trances

Trances is a documentary about the Moroccan group Nass …

Language of Presentation: Arabic, English
Media Format:
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: World Cinema Foundation

Desert Sorrows

Desert Sorrows is a dual language (Arabic-English) coll …

Language of Presentation: Arabic, English
Media Format: Print Publication
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Michigan State University Press

Muftah

Muftah is a website and organization that seeks to prov …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Muftah

Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East

This website for the 2009 Saatchi Gallery exhibit “Unve …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Image/Photo, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Saatchi Gallery

Maqam World

This website explores music by from the Middle East thr …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Maqam World

Google Cultural Institute: Art Project

Google Cultural Institute’s Art Project hosts images fr …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Image/Photo, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Google

Arabic and Islamic Science and Its Influence on the Western Scientific Tradition

From the Library of Congress’ World Digital Library com …

Language of Presentation: English
Media Format: Streaming Audio, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: The World Digital Library (WDL), The Library of Congress