Category: Teaching Tools

WebsitesWebsites 40 Maps that Explain the Middle East by Max Fisher on vox.com. ps can be a powerful tool for understanding the world, particularly the Middle East, a place in many ways shaped by changing political borders and demographics. Here are 40 maps crucial for understanding the Middle East — its history, its present, and some of the [...]

One of the best ways to teach a visual generation about the Middle East is through film, both from and about the region. Films are specially equipped to capture the attention of audiences through their ability to touch a variety of senses. The sounds and sights and emotions of the Middle East can cross borders, [...]

Title VI National Resource Centers The International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) office of the U.S. Department of Education provides institutional and fellowship grant funding to strengthen the capability and performance of American education in foreign languages, and in area and international studies. National Resource Centers teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels and conduct [...]

VIDEOS Assessing the Syrian Refugee Crisis Jeffrey Crisp, senior director for policy and advocacy at Refugees International, and Rochelle Davis, associate professor of cultural anthropology at Georgetown University, join Andrew Parasiliti, director of the Center for Global Risk and Security at the RAND Corporation, to discuss the long-term welfare of Syrian refugees and the burden [...]