Literature/Writing

This syllabus is for a college course on Middle Eastern literature.

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.

Parts of this syllabus were inspired by participation in the University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies NEH Institute entitled:Understanding Middle East Millennials Through Literature, Culture, and Media.

These modules can be incorporated into courses related to understanding the Middle East. This material 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 college 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."

Educator Betsey Coleman has created a website full of biographies, writings, and curricular materials on American women writers of Muslim heritage: http://betseycoleman.com/

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. 

This lesson includes epic poetry of the 1389 Battle of Kosovo (between Balkan forces - under the Serbs - and the armies of the Ottoman Empire). From there, students examine the way the battle was (re)interpreted in history and the profound 20th century impact of the Kosovo literature. The lesson also includes different background materials and two types of writing prompts.

a lesson about Moroccan storytelling for novice-high or intermediate French classes

by Jessica Setzer

Documents and writing prompts about Iranian women in modern times.