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Title Understanding and teaching the modern Middle East / edited by Omnia El Shakry
Published Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 364 pages) : illustrations, map
Series The Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history
Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history.
Contents Introduction: The Middle East in the world / Omnia El Shakry -- Part One: The Middle East in the classroom. Why can't you find the Middle East on a map? / Michael Gasper -- Controversy in the classroom: lessons from the modern Middle East / Omnia El Shakry -- Part Two: Understanding and teaching historical content. The legacy of Islam in the modern Middle East / Ovamir Anjum -- Colonialism, empire, and nationalist movements / Sara Pursley -- Decolonization and the reconfiguration of the global order / Muriam Haleh Davis -- The history of Israel/Palestine / Sherene Seikaly -- Understanding sectarianism as a global problem / Ussama Makdisi -- The Iranian revolution: from monarchy to the Islamic Republic / Naghmeh Sohrabi and Arielle Gordon -- Part Three: Understanding and teaching the contemporary Middle East. U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East / Nathan J. Citino -- America, oil, and war in the Middle East / Toby Craig Jones -- Teaching the global war on terror / Darryl Li -- Arab uprisings in the modern Middle East / Asef Bayat -- Refugees in and from the Middle East: teaching about displacement in the context of the international refugee regime / Rochelle Davis -- Part Four: Methods and sources. Literature as a source for teaching modern Middle East history / Elliott Colla -- Cinema as a source for teaching modern Middle East history / Kamran Rastegar -- Gender and sexuality: sources and methods / Hanan Hammad -- Nuancing the narrative: teaching the Jewish modern Middle East / Alma Rachel Heckman -- The Armenian genocide and the politics of knowledge / Christine Philliou -- Using primary source documents to teach nationalization and imperialism in the modern Middle East / Kit Adam Wainer -- Keeping current: contemporary engagement when teaching modern Middle East history / Ziad Abu-Rish
Summary Understanding and Teaching the Modern Middle East moves away from the Orientalist frameworks that have dominated the West's understanding of the region, offering a range of fresh interpretations and approaches for teachers. The volume brings together experts on the rich intellectual, cultural, social, and political history of the Middle East, providing necessary historical context to familiarize teachers with the latest scholarship
"Offering a range of fresh interpretations and approaches for the classroom, this volume brings together experts on the rich intellectual, cultural, social, and political history of the Middle East, providing necessary historical context to familiarize educators with the latest scholarship. Each chapter includes easy-to-explore sources to supplement any curriculum, focusing on valuable and controversial themes that may prove pedagogically challenging, including colonization and decolonization, the Iranian revolution, and the US-led "war on terror". By presenting multiple viewpoints, Understanding and Teaching the Modern Middle East provides a springboard for instructors as they encourage students to negotiate the various contradictions in historical study"--Back cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed July 18, 2022)
Subject HISTORY / General
Education
SUBJECT Middle East -- History -- Study and teaching
Subject Middle East
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author El Shakry, Omnia S., 1970- editor.
ISBN 9780299327637
0299327639