Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures Newsletter, Vol 2 (Fall 1999)

Symposium on pilgrimage to holy sites; graduate student news; brown bag luncheon series; Tracking Cultures; conference on Hassan Fathy; faculty publications; new assistant professors Kamran Aghaie and Yildiray Erdener; faculty profile Mohammad Ali Jazayery; faculty workshops.Middle Eastern Languages and Culture

Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures Newsletter, Vol 3 (Spring 2000)

conference on Judaism and Islam: cross currents; new Jewish Studies major; student news; MELC faculty awards and grands; lectures and presentations; faculty publications and other creative work; A retrospective of Haim Shiran's films; faculty profile: Yaron Bar-Adon; workshop on the teaching of Islamic and Jewish studies.Middle Eastern Languages and Culture

The Martyrs of Karbala Shi'i Symbols and Rituals in Modern Iran

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. A Brief Historical Background of Shi'ism and Moharram -- 2. The Qajar Elites and Religious Patronage (1796-1925) -- 3. Qajar Society and Religious Culture: Tehran as a Case Study -- 4. The Pahlavi Regime and the Emergence of Secular Modernism (1925-1979) -- 5. Religious Rituals, Society, and Politics during the Pahlavi Period -- 6. Hoseyn, "The Prince of Martyrs" -- 7. Fatemeh, Zeynab, and Emerging Discourses on Gender -- 8. The Islamic Republic -- 9. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries

Seminar and Curriculum Development Project in Egypt

This archive includes the final report submitted to the United States Department of Education. Names of participants in the program approved by the Department of Education have been redacted from this version to comply with online privacy requirements.The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin received funding under the Group Projects Abroad program to take fifteen social studies teachers and curriculum specialists to Egypt for a four-week study program in June and July of 2005. The program objectives were (1) to provide selected lead teachers with an opportunity to learn about and experience Egyptian culture first hand, and thus achieve an enhanced understanding of Egypt, its pivotal geopolitical role, and its historic and cultural links with the Middle East, Africa, and the West; (2) to enable participating teachers to acquire ideas, information, and instructional materials, and develop lesson plans that will enrich the social science curriculum and ensure more effective presentation of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards as defined in the mandated curriculum of the state of Texas (see appendix); (3) to work with the participants to design, develop, evaluate, and broadly disseminate individual lesson plans as well as an instructional curriculum trunk focusing on the history, culture, economy, and educational system of Egypt. Both were intended to help teachers nationwide to incorporate an intercultural perspective into social studies, world history, and world geography classes. The study seminar in Egypt was structured in such a way as to provide participants with both formal and informal educational and cultural experiences.Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad.Middle Eastern Studie

Middle Eastern Studies Newsletter 2006-2007, No. 30

NRC refunding; new faculty Mahmoud al-Batal and Kristen Brustad; Fulbright-Hays seminar in Egypt; off-campus workshops fior K-12 teachers; K-12 curriculum development; Islamic Movements conferenc; Urban Geographies conference; new fiction translations; grant from SIAWE for Persian translations; new publications; Mediterranean Crossroads 2006; online Persian language learning resources; new faculty Sonia Seeman, Nader Morkus; visiting professor Yoav Gelber; new librarian Robin Dougherty.Middle Eastern Studie

Middle Eastern Studies Newsletter 2010-2011, No. 34

New Ancient Israel and the Near East program; interview with Ghada Abdel Aal, author of I Want to Get Married! The Jil Jadid graduate student conference in Arabic literature and linguistics; a visit by Adonis; Arabic House co-op; Intensive Persian language summer institute; teacher study abroad; outreach lecture series; the new push for Turkish studies.Middle Eastern Studie