This lesson introduces students to the Pulitzer Center e-book "Flight From Syria: Refugee Stories," featuring the work of nine journalists whose travels took them from Syria to Sweden, and from crowded camps to cramped apartments in city suburbs. Students examine and discuss the Syrian refugee crisis and its effect on children.
Important Questions and Answers about the Syrian Refugee Crisis for Educators along with an in-depth list of complimentary content resources to support student inquiry. A website created by the Middle East Policy Council
The Founding Fathers and Islam: An Essay and Discussion Prompts for the Classroom
With more than 55 million items, the Library of Congress Manuscript Division contains the papers of 23 presidents, from George Washington to Calvin Coolidge. In this article, Manuscript Division Chief James Hutson draws upon the papers of Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other primary documents to discuss the relationship of Islam to the new nation.
Consider also reading: Thomas Jefferson's Quran: Islam and the Founders
University Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona has resources for K-12 teachers: Their lesson plan page has a SEARCH ENGINE, so that you can search by grade, subject, and content area - simultaneously. Go to: http://cmes.arizona.edu/outreach/lessons There is everything from an awesome 3rd-5th grade lesson on "Water in the Desert" to middle and high school lessons in English, History, Geography, Current Events, etc....
Conversations at The Carter Center: The Rise of Islamophobia
Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, 7–8:15 p.m.
Islamophobia and radical extremism are inextricably linked. Find out how the negative portrayal of Muslims in the media impacts real-world events and learn more about strategic responses to Islamophobia in Europe and the U.S.
Islamophobia Studies Center, University of California Berkley, Director Bazian's Recorded Livestream (7.26.17) on Al-Aqsa Occupation
Link to Video
Al-Aqsa & Jerusalem Under Occupation
"International Law, Religious Freedom & Israeli Attacks
Univrsity of PIttsburgh's Departments of French and Italian and the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program
The Department of French and Italian and the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program presents:
Events on Sexuality and Islam in France
General lecture by Denis Provencher (Arizona), “Queer Maghrebi French”
The Elusive Struggle for Justice in Palestine,” this Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Sixth Presbyterian Church (1688 Murray Ave in Squirrel Hill). This event will provide an opportunity to discuss how justice might best be accomplished by looking at tools that will facilitate the conversation, and also suggesting ways to put the conversation into action.
For a variety of reasons, Muslims in America are in the public spotlight. As a result, the demand for information and analysis on Muslims and Islam in the United States has risen. At ISPU, we conduct objective, solution-seeking research that empowers American Muslims to develop their community and fully contribute to democracy and pluralism in the United States. It is our hope that these materials will allow a host of interested parties to do the same.
Mohsin Hamid to present as part of the Drue Heinz Trust Series in Pittsburgh, March 26, 2018. Single Tickets go on sale July 5, 2017.
Hamid's book Exit Wes is book being discussed at the CERIS book discussion on October 27, 2017 at Seton Hill University. A free book is available for to those who sign up at http://www.cerisnet.org/resource/faculty-readers-forum.
