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MEPC provides free, highly acclaimed, non-partisan workshops on the Middle East and Islam across the U.S. Our education director will come to your school, organization or conference with innovative strategies for teaching these complex topics. We tailor workshops to your specific needs

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Arab Culture & Civilization

Explore this exemplary library of articles and resources on Arab societies and culture. This site was originally created by the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE).

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Literature PDF Print

Literature is a wonderful way to experience a society from the inside. It gives us access to the thoughts and emotions of characters in the Middle East and insight into historical and contemporary conditions. While of course the characters and situations may be fictional, the environments and emotions do reflect the points of view of indigenous authors. Whether through a vibrantly illustrated picture book or a dense, experimental novel, literature gives us an exciting window onto the Middle East.
 

Essays

Drama

This chapter by Roger Allen surveys the development of Egyptian drama from a literary perspective, i.e. the texts as published from their origins in Egypt and Egyptian theater in the world, but the

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Middle East Book Award Winners and Google Earth Tours

MEOC's Middle East Book Awards recognize outstanding picture books, youth literature and nonfiction on the Middle East suitable for use in the K-12 classroom.

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Multimedia

Interview with Margaret Larkin on Poetry

In this interview Margaret Larkin, professor of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California in Berkeley, talks about the history of Arabic Literature through its major phases, from the pre-Islamic era through the Abbasid and Umayyad periods to the Modern period. (30.96 MB)  

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