Themes: Literature, Music & The Arts
Drawing on global current events, students will partici …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File
School Level: Middle/High School
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This lesson plan focuses on teaching students about the …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File
School Level: Elementary
Institution/Provider:
This is a lesson plan that teachers can use to introduc …
Language of Presentation: Arabic, EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Elementary
Institution/Provider: Discovering Arabic
“Speaking the Culture of the Middle East” is a lesson i …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Image/Photo, Streaming Video
School Level: Middle/High School
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The name of this lesson plan is “Living in the Wall; Th …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Image/Photo, Streaming Video
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider:
The Ottoman Empire played a pivotal role in the develop …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider:
This library resources offers a list of women writers f …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Boston University
This library resource provides a list of texts and onli …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Columbia University Libraries
This is a display of audiovisual resources to be used i …
Language of Presentation: Arabic, EnglishMedia Format: Online Tools, Streaming Video
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Laila Familiar
This Al Jazeera site offers free of charge resources de …
Language of Presentation: ArabicMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Al Jazeera
This is a digital collection of posters from or referen …
Language of Presentation: Arabic, English, OtherMedia Format: Image/Photo, Streaming Video, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: The Palestine Poster Project Archives, Liberation Graphics
This five-lesson teaching unit explores the role of spo …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider:
In this five lesson teaching unit, middle school studen …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider:
This edition of Inside Story from Al Jazeera English ex …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Streaming Video
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Al Jazeera English
This video provides an introduction to Sufism, its rela …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Streaming Video, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: WNET
MIT Global Shakespeares is a project/website seeking to …
Language of Presentation: Arabic, EnglishMedia Format: Streaming Video, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Global Shakespeare Video Archive
This teaching guide to Hisham Matar’s novel In the Coun …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Penguin Random House
This guide to the animated documentary Waltz With Bashi …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Film Education
In this short TED Talk, Bahia Shehab lays out key messa …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Streaming Video
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: TED Conferences, LLC
This lesson examines music and dance from the Middle Ea …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File
School Level: Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Smithsonian Folkways
This lesson explores Bedouin culture in Egypt through m …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Smithsonian Folkways
This lesson for elementary students introduces them to …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File
School Level: Elementary
Institution/Provider: Smithsonian Folkways
This is a page of resources for educators from the Amer …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
In this lesson, students learn about the ghazal, a form …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities
Trances is a documentary about the Moroccan group Nass …
Language of Presentation: Arabic, EnglishMedia Format:
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: World Cinema Foundation
Desert Sorrows is a dual language (Arabic-English) coll …
Language of Presentation: Arabic, EnglishMedia Format: Print Publication
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Michigan State University Press
Muftah is a website and organization that seeks to prov …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Muftah
This website for the 2009 Saatchi Gallery exhibit “Unve …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Image/Photo, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Saatchi Gallery
This website explores music by from the Middle East thr …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Maqam World
Google Cultural Institute’s Art Project hosts images fr …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Image/Photo, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Google
The World Digital Library, a project of the Library of …
Language of Presentation: Arabic, EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Streaming Audio, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: The World Digital Library (WDL), The Library of Congress
This website offers a variety of articles, slideshows, …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSTC)
The Qatar Digital Library is a substantial online archi …
Language of Presentation: Arabic, EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Qatar National Library
This website offers an overview and teaching suggestion …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Western Michigan University
This is an educational blog full of activities and reso …
Language of Presentation: Arabic, EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University
Institution/Provider: Riyad Alhomsi
This lesson from the Victoria & Albert Museum in Lo …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Victoria & Albert Museum
This lesson from the Victoria & Albert Museum in Lo …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Victoria & Albert Museum
This lesson from the Victoria & Albert Museum in Lo …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Victoria & Albert Museum
This lesson from the Victoria & Albert Museum in Lo …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Victoria & Albert Museum
This unit from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Art of …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Teaching Resources page for Harvard University’s Ce …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Streaming Video, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Developed for a 2013 conference, “Reorienting the Veil” …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: University of North Carolina
George Washington University’s Institute for Middle Eas …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
School Level: Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Elliott School, George Washington University
Jadaliyya is an online news and academic journal sponso …
Language of Presentation: Arabic, English, French, OtherMedia Format: Image/Photo, Streaming Audio, Streaming Video, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Arab Studies Institute
This is the landing page for the Middle East on The New …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Image/Photo, Streaming Video, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: The New York Times Company
Each year, the Middle East Outreach Council issues awa …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Middle East Outreach Council
This is a curriculum guide for the new film, The Prophe …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Journeys in Film
This lesson uses political cartoons to help students ex …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: The Choices Program
In this lesson plan, students explore the role of graff …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: The Choices Program
This comic, by Sarah Glidden and the Common Language Pr …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: The VJ Movement