The University of North Carolina's Worldview project has many fantastic - free - resources for community college educators who want more global content in their curriculum. They have curriculum modules that can be inserted into pre-existing courses and new courses that can be added to the curriculum.
If you teach about women in Islamic cultures, the University of North Carolina's website "Re-Orienting the Veil" may interest you. It's full of resources and photos on veiling, not only in the Middle East or Islamic cultures.
Harvard University has a webpage supposedly for K-12 educators. However, several of their lessons are useful for or adaptable to teaching college students. Look in particular at the one on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the one on "The Clash of Misunderstandings" (about anti-Western feeling in the Middle East and Islamophobia in the West).
Starting October 3rd, please join us at the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh for a course open to both Muslims and Non-Muslims who are interested in increasing their knowledge of feeing their curiosity about what the religion of Islam is all about. The course begins with basics which will lead into a more in-depth study of the five Pillars, Quran, Hadith, and the Messengers of God.
A sign at the entrance of a family farm near Bethlehem reads “We refuse to be enemies.” The farm belongs to Daoud Nassar, a Palestinian Christian who operates a peace center there known as the Tent of Nations that has welcomed Christians, Jews and Muslims from all over the world. Although his family has farmed the land since the Ottoman era, he has battled in the courts for over 20 years to keep it from being confiscated by the Israeli government.
Turkish Cultural Center, Thomas Merton Center, Christian Associates of Southwest Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Area Jewish Committee
The Greater Pittsburgh Interfaith Coalition (PAJC is a member) invites you join us for a panel discussion where we will explore the roots of compassion across faith traditions.
This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
Free parking in Carlow garage, entrance on 5th Ave
OCMES, Baldwin Wallace Univer- sity, Case Western Reserve University, and Kent State University
International news media called Ahmet Yildiz’s murder the "first Turkish gay honor killing." The crime and the discourses that unfolded in its aftermath speak to racializing narratives within Turkey, as well as across transnational queer circuits, and to the imagined transnational division of labor between the domestic and the public, where the relationship between sex and violence is used to shore up the West as the place of stranger danger by establishing the so-called "East" as the location of family violence.
Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa
The 2015 conference will feature:
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Prof. Samir Khalil Samir, SJ, Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome on "The Fate of Middle East Christians."
SPECIAL REMARKS: H.E. Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, Kurdistan Regional Government Representative to the United States
