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Bob Maloy

resourcesforhistoryteachers - Lawrence of Arabia and the Arab Revolt of 1916-18 - 2 views

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    A new page on the resourcesforhistoryteachers wiki about Middle East history focusing on T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt
Daniel Ballantyne

Arab spring: an interactive timeline of Middle East protests | World news | guardian.co.uk - 12 views

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    A great tool for students to use to understand the sequence of events in the Arab Spring and to understand historical significance.  It would be interesting to ask students to compare international responses to the various uprisings and ask them to make a judgement about the fairness of each response.
Jason O'Quinn

Israel cuts 1948 'catastrophe' from Arabic texts - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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    The Israeli government will remove references to what Palestinians call the "catastrophe" of Israel's creation from textbooks for Arab schoolchildren, the education minister said Wednesday.
David Hilton

Internet Islamic History Sourcebook - 4 views

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    Another brilliantly organised collection from the History Sourcebooks.
anonymous

The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme - 3 views

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    Educational Materials Please do not hesitate to request information material such as: - Study Guide "The Last Flight of Petr Ginz" (available in English, French and Spanish) - Women and the Holocaust educational DVD and study guide (available in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese (subtitles)) - Discussion Papers Journal, Volume I (available in all UN official languages) - Discussion Papers Journal, Volume II (available in English) - Footprints for Hope educational video DVD (available in all UN official languages (subtitles)) - Posters (available in English, French, Spanish and Russian) - Commemorative DVD (highlighting the first universal observance of the International Day of Commemoration on memory of the victims of the holocaust
Ed Webb

Timbuktu mayor: Mali rebels torched library of historic manuscripts | World news | guar... - 1 views

  • Islamist insurgents retreating from Timbuktu set fire to a library containing thousands of priceless historic manuscripts,
  • The manuscripts had survived for centuries in Timbuktu, on the remote south-west fringe of the Sahara desert. They were hidden in wooden trunks, buried in boxes under the sand and in caves. When French colonial rule ended in 1960, Timbuktu residents held preserved manuscripts in 60-80 private libraries.The vast majority of the texts were written in Arabic. A few were in African languages, such as Songhai, Tamashek and Bambara. There was even one in Hebrew. They covered a diverse range of topics including astronomy, poetry, music, medicine and women's rights. The oldest dated from 1204.
  • they exploded the myth that "black Africa" had only an oral history. "You just need to look at the manuscripts to realise how wrong this is."
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  • only a fraction of the manuscripts had been digitised. "They cover geography, history and religion. We had one in Turkish. We don't know what it said."
  • Mali government forces that had been guarding Timbuktu left the town in late March, as Islamist fighters advanced rapidly across the north. Fighters from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) – the group responsible for the attack on the Algerian gas facility – then swept in and seized the town, pushing out rival militia groups including secular Tuareg nationalists.
  • As well as the manuscripts, the fighters destroyed almost all of the 333 Sufi shrines dotted around Timbuktu, believing them to be idolatrous. They smashed a civic statue of a man sitting on a winged horse.
  • The rebels enforced their own brutal and arbitrary version of Islam, residents said, with offenders flogged for talking to women and other supposed crimes. The floggings took place in the square outside the 15th-century Sankoré mosque, a Unesco world heritage site.
  • They weren't religious men. They were criminals
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    Such a tragedy
Iris Yin

Resources for Teachers | The Middle East Center at Penn - 12 views

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    Useful Links, Resources, and Lesson Plans for K-12 Teachers Lesson Plans and Powerpoints from the MEC Navigating a Crisis Workshop April 2010: Powerpoint on Teaching the Iraq War through film -- click here to download Powerpoint on Teaching Iran -- click here to download The Middle East and the Islamic World The American Forum for Global Education "Issues of Muslim Identity"A high school curriculum including student readings, teacher guides, and maps.
David Hilton

Historical overview - 2 views

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    A no-doubt perfectly impartial, disinterested version of Israel's ancient, medieval and modern history. 'The Iranian Threat' gets its own link...
David Hilton

IOM RAS - Manuscript Collection Kept at the IOM RAS - 0 views

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    These manuscripts are maintained by the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts at St Petersburg. I don't know if they have English translations - how's your Tibetan?
David Hilton

Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts: About Us - 0 views

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    I'm not sure if this site has digitised medieval manuscripts there or if it functions as a search engine for the rest of the web, but either way it's a good place to find medieval primary sources.
David Hilton

British Museum - Advanced Search - 0 views

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    This seems to have some high-quality images of artefacts. Not sure if there are documentary sources, though.
David Hilton

Euratlas Historical Maps - 14 views

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    Collections of maps of Europe and the Middle East in high resolution and organised by centuries. Also has a video on Europe since Roman times.
Suzie Nestico

Middle East protests | World news | guardian.co.uk - 1 views

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    Very cool, interactive timeline of the protests in the Middle East beginning with Tunisia in December 2010
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