Geography

These college geography materials show the complexity of the African continent. 

This series of college research topics comes with overall background information on six waves of migration through Morocco: the Muslim conquest of medieval Spain, the later explusion of Jews and Muslims from Spain to Morocco, European colonialism in Morocco, movements because of world wars and Moroccan independence, and modern migration from (and across) Morocco to Europe. The project is a result of a 2019 University of Arizona-organized Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad curriculum development program to Morocco.

This syllabus was inspired by participation in the University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies 2019 NEH Institute "Understanding Middle East Millennials Through Literature, Culture, and Media."

This provides an introduction to the Arabian peninsula.

This is an introduction to historical Indian Ocean trade routes from the Arabian peninsula. 

Discussion of the film "The Historical Roots of the Syrian Refugee Crisis"

by Emma Harver, Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies, UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University

Lesson to illustrate how development strateiges have produced different results in East Asia and Latian America

by Dr. Takashi Kanatsu, Department of Political Science, Hofstra University

Document analysis on the formation of the state of Israel in 1948

by Samia Shoman, Hillside High School, San Mateo, CA

Posted by the University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies

This writing assignment contains 3 sets of documents (on health care, infectious diseases and official responses, and disease during times of war) on Ottoman medicine and health challenges. A variety of writing prompts are also included.