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The Middle East through Foreign Eyes
By Alex Barna, The University of Chicago The following is an excerpt from a teaching module titled “The Middle East as Seen Through Foreign Eyes” composed and edited by John Woods, Professor of Central...
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Resources: Beyond Stereotypes of Muslims in America
From Humor and Hollywood to Piety and Fashion By Greta Scharnweber, New York University The following are a few fascinating online, print, and film resources that would help support extension...
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Teaching about Religious Phobia in the US
By Joan Brodsky Schur, Village Community School The vilification of the “religious other” is nothing new in America and in fact has a long history. This lesson is designed to shed perspective on the...
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Five Myths about Mosques in America
By Edward E. Curtis IV In addition to spawning passionate debates in the public, the news media and the political class, the proposal to build a Muslim community center near Ground Zero in New York has...
View ArticlePerspectives/Fall 2010: Islamophobia
America’s Ongoing Struggle with Religious Pluralism The public discourse in today’s United States, crafted so clearly within a “post-9/11” framework, might lead one to believe that fear of Islam and...
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MEOC Perspectives Newsletter Issues
MEOC Perspectives Newsletter Issues in PDF format for download: Fall 2009 Spring 2008 Fall 2006
View ArticlePerspectives/Spring 2010: New Media in the Middle East
Electronic Infitah: The Opening Up of Middle Eastern Media and Societies In the 1970s, the infitah, or opening up, of Egypt’s economy brought great opportunity to some Egyptians and great dislocation...
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Perspectives/Spring 2011: Arab Spring
Revolution and Popular Protest in the Middle East Just a few short months ago, it would have been hard to imagine the transformations we have seen take place across the Middle East region since...
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Perspectives/Fall 2011: Water in the Middle East
Global Freshwater Scarcity: The Middle East in Context by Abigail Schade, Davidson College The Middle East is not the only arid region in the world, nor is its diverse topography exclusively arid. In...
View ArticlePerspectives/Spring 2013: Teaching K-12 Arabic
Teaching K-12 Arabic: Success Stories, Communities, Resources The Arabic language today is native to more than 400 million people, and is an influential scriptural language for the more than 1 billion...
View ArticlePerspectives/Fall 2012: Media, Culture, and Image
Media, Culture and Image: New Resources Promote Media Literacy and Challenge Middle East Stereotypes By Greta Scharnweber, New York University Jack Shaheen, renowned analyst of images of Arabs and...
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Perspectives/Fall 2010: Islamophobia
ISLAMOPHOBIA: America’s Ongoing Struggle with Religious Pluralism The public discourse in today’s United States, crafted so clearly within a “post-9/11” framework, might lead one to believe that fear...
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Perspectives/Fall 2013
Tracing Islamicate Culture in America: History, Architecture, and Public Life This October, the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) and the Middle East Outreach Council (MEOC) held...
View ArticleMuslim Life in Miniature: A Visual Tour through Two Persian Paintings
From Perspectives, Nov. 2006 Many people still believe the old cliché that there is no representational art in Islam. In fact, there is a rich tradition of representational art, although it is usually...
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