Arabic Language Study
- American Association of Teachers of Arabic: List of Arabic Language Programs Reliable US-based clearing house that focuses on university, rather than commercial, programs.
- Arabeya Arabic Language In Egypt; see the website for testimonials.
Arabs
- Jadaliyya Best “ezine” in English to come out of the Arab Spring.
Islam and Muslims
- Islam and Islamic Studies Resources Islam-related studies, translations, links carefully organized, selected and consistently updated by Prof. Alan Godlas of the University of Georgia.
- The American Muslim The best source on Islam in the US. Updated daily by Muslim-American Sheila Musaji of St. Louis.
Palestine/Israel
- St. Louis Solidarity Committee Grand Central for Palestine organizing in the greater St. Louis area.
- US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation The main US activist organization devoted to ending U.S. support for Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
Resources for Teachers
- Center for Muslim Christian Understanding CMCU, based at Georgetown University, organizes free development workshops for teachers.
- Dar al-Islam Site of Muslim-American educational and retreat center in New Mexico. Hosts amazing summer institute for teachers.
- Institute on Religion and Civic Values Dedicated to the idea of “religious literacy”, the website includes resources for teaching about Islam and about religion in the American classroom.
- On Top of the World World history podcasts; a valuable aid to non-specialists teachers of World History
- Teach Mideast Background and lesson plans for teachers.
World History
- On Top of the World World history podcasts; a valuable aid to non-specialists teachers of World History
Category Archives: World History
The Global Cold War and the Empire of Justice
In my last post I outlined historian Odd Arne Wested’s argument for the ideological foundations of American policy during the Cold War. Unlike earlier generations of Cold War historians he places American Cold War policies in the the context of … Continue reading
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Tagged Comintern, Communism, empire, ideology, imperialism, Lenin, modernity, Russian Revolution, tsar
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Cultural Brokers: Exploring the Complexities of Historical Encounters
All too often, we are led to understand history in terms of the clash of monolithic political and cultural bodies, like states and civilizations. We assume, for example, that the conquest of the Americas was a zero-sum struggle pitting Europeans … Continue reading
World History in My Backyard: Cahokia Meets Bali
When I first came to Edwardsville, IL to teach more than 10 years ago, if someone had mentioned Cahokia Mounds to me I would have scratched my head wondering what they were talking about. I knew about the Gateway Arch … Continue reading
Haitian History as Antidote to Eurocentrism
I have to remember to tell my mother how much she influenced me as a historian. Mary Ellen Tamari lived in and studied a rural community, Bellevue la Montagne, in the mountains above Port-au-Prince, Haiti for the better part of a decade. … Continue reading
Witch Hunts and World History: A Feminist History of Capitalism
Thus far in our exploration of Eurocentrism (and its crtics) in the writing of modern world history, my graduate students and I have not seen radical challenges to keeping Europe at the center. For all their efforts to redress the … Continue reading
Competing Approaches to Modern World History, Part II: The Case of Europe’s Late Take-off
This week my graduate students and I explored a new front in the battle over modern world history. To recap the first installment in this series: David Landes argues for the cultural factors that explain European economic success in the … Continue reading
Competing Approaches to World History: Part 1, NeoEurocentrism
During the last 20 years or so in American education, courses in World History have replaced courses in Western Civilization as compulsory for most undergraduates. The Illinois State Board of Education, for example, now requires students who want to be … Continue reading
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insidethemiddle by steve tamari 