Authentic materials: Historical Primary Sources
This resource is a compilation of units and curricula f …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File
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Institution/Provider: British Council and Social Science Research Council
The art of ancient Egypt and the collection of The Metr …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
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Institution/Provider: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Many features of civilization originated in the lands w …
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Institution/Provider: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This resource is comprised of an extensive list of free …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
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Institution/Provider: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University
This collection includes 21 profiles of countries acros …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
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Institution/Provider: Middle East Policy Council
This section of the Middle Eastern American Resources O …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Middle Eastern American Resources Online (MEARO)
A lot of people around the world don’t know that many J …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
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Institution/Provider: Rick Gold
This is an annotated bibliography of text and film reso …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File
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Institution/Provider: Al-Masdar Teacher Advisory Board
This is the website of the Museum of Islamic Art. Throu …
Language of Presentation: Arabic, EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
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Institution/Provider: Museum of Islamic Art
This is the Museum of Islamic Art. Through this website …
Language of Presentation: Arabic, EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Museum of Islamic Art
This website contains a variety of lessons on geography …
Language of Presentation: ArabicMedia Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
School Level: Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Promethean Limited
This website includes a variety of resources on topics …
Language of Presentation: ArabicMedia Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: المكتبة الجغرافية
This lesson plan is designed for the secondary level an …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Image/Photo
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider:
The Ottoman Empire played a pivotal role in the develop …
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This lesson plan for a secondary history classroom focu …
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This set of lesson plans explores the impact of World W …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: The History Project: University of California Davis
This teaching module offers resources and lesson plans …
Language of Presentation: Arabic, English, OtherMedia Format: Streaming Audio, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University | University of Missouri-Kansas City
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 online collection of primary source documents from …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: The Avalon Project, Lillian Goldman Law Library (Yale Law School)
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 two-week unit plan was created for 9th grade Moder …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File
School Level: Middle/High School
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This is an online version of a part of The History of C …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: University of Chicago
From the Library of Congress’ World Digital Library com …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Streaming Audio, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: The World Digital Library (WDL), The Library of Congress
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 is a digital version of the brochure for the Natio …
Language of Presentation: Arabic, EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: U.S. National Library of Medicine
This online collection of maps of the Middle East featu …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: University of Texas at Austin
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
Saudi Aramco World offers virtual tours of three histor …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Aramco Services Company
This online issue of Saudi Aramco World focuses on scie …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Aramco Services Company
This project, started in 1993, is a collection of links …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Gulf/2000 Project
This is a collection of maps seeking to “explain” the M …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Streaming Video, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Vox
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
This teaching resources from The New York Times’ Learni …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: The New York Times Company
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
1913: Seeds of Conflict is a new documentary on Palesti …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: DVD/Videotape, Streaming Video
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
The Balfour Declaration is a letter from Foreign Secret …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: UNISPAL
The Sykes-Picot agreement was a secret agreement betwee …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Lillian Goldman Law Library
The Hussein McMahon Correspondence is a collection of l …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
This resource presents the past 100 years in the Middle …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Your Middle East
This unit was developed based on an extensive analysis …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider:
This guide from Primary Source includes a collection of …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Primary Source
Archnet is an international community of scholars and s …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Image/Photo, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Aga Khan Trust for Culture and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Through regional case studies, this unit introduces stu …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: University of Texas at Austin
This guide provides books, websites, curriculum, films …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Print Publication, Streaming Video, Webpage
School Level: Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Primary Source
This guide, curated by Primary Source, highlights books …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Print Publication, Webpage
School Level: Elementary, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Primary Source
While slavery in the U.S. is a common topic in the curr …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Downloadable File, Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: University of Texas at Austin
This guide provides books, videos, news sources, blogs, …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Print Publication, Webpage
School Level: College/University, Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Primary Source
Jews lived in Iraq for centuries, but by the 1970s, mos …
Language of Presentation: Arabic, English, OtherMedia Format: Webpage
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Institution/Provider: US National Archives
In 2011, the Egyptian people staged 18 days of demonstr …
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Institution/Provider: Portland State University
This teaching resource offers a unique approach to worl …
Language of Presentation: EnglishMedia Format: Webpage
School Level: Middle/High School
Institution/Provider: Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, George Mason University