WEB-BASED RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS, - University of Pennsylvania, Middle East Center

The following is a list of web-based resources that will be useful to teachers teaching about the Middle East and Islam. The University of Pennsylvania’s Middle East Center compiled the list, though it consists of web pages from various Middle East Centers and Middle East-Related organizations around the U.S.

http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/program/neareast/8_me_resources.html -- New York University’s Hagop Kervorkian Center’s page that includes Academic Associations and Institutes, Journals, On-Line News and Media, On-Line Dictionaries, and Virtual Libraries links. NYU’s Bobst Library also has a page

http://www.lib.umich.edu/area/Near.East/NewLinks.html -- The University of Michigan’s Links to Resources on Middle Eastern Studies and Judaica. The page contains links to web resources on the Ancient Near East, the Middle East (general), Judaica and Hebraica, Turkish Studies Web-Sites, Computers and Languages of the Near East, Scholarly and Professional Associations, Library and Publishers’ Sites, News and Electronic Publications, Resources in Linguistics, Electronic Text Collections, and Bibliographical Resources in Middle Eastern Studies at the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Michigan.

http://menic.utexas.edu/menic/organizations.html -- The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin’s web page listing web links to Middle East-related organizations and associations.

http://inic.utexas.edu/menic/meoc -- The Middle East Outreach Council’s (MEOC) web page. The page contains links to pages discussing various programs sponsored or co-sponsored by MEOC. The main page contains links to categories such as services and programs, publications, online publications, and resource catalogs. It also has links to various programs sponsored or co-sponsored by MEOC, such as its “Evaluation of Secondary-Level Textbooks for Coverage of the Middle East and North Africa”. The page also has links to pages discussing planning strategies for Middle East educational activities, such as “Funding Your Dreams: Ideas for Middle East Outreach Activities, by Marta Colburn” ( at http://inic.utexas.edu/menic/meoc/funding.html) and “Educational Workshops: An Opportunity to Build Bridges of Understanding in the Classroom and Community, also by Marta Colburn (http://inic.utexas.edu/menic/meoc/workshop.html).

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www.ccasonline.org – The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University’s web page.

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Emideast/trc/index.html -- Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies Teaching Resource Center web page. The page provides a discussion of the various Middle East-related resources at Harvard, and provides contact information for the Center’s outreach coordinator.

OTHER MIDDLE EAST-RELATED WEB SITES

http://www.cc.utah.edu/~jwr9311/MENA.html -- Middle East/North Africa Internet Resource Guide

www.arches.uga.edu/~godlas/index.php -- Islamic Studies, Islam, Arabic and Religion

w3fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc – Middle East Studies Association of North America

www.telegraphave.com/gui/awairproductinfo.html -- Arab World and Islamic Resources and School Services

www.ncusar.org/modelarableague/aboutmal.html -- High School Model Arab League

www.lib.unc.edu/cdd/crs/foreign/meiw/films.html -- Middle East and Islamic World Film Collections