Teaching the Literature of Today's Middle East [Paperback]

Providing a gateway into the real literature emerging from the Middle East, this book shows teachers how to make the topic authentic, powerful, and relevant. Teaching the Literature of Todays Middle East:

 Introduces teachers to this literature and how to teach it
 Brings to the reader a tremendous diversity of teachable texts and materials by Middle Eastern writers
 Takes a thematic approach that allows students to understand and engage with the region  and address key issues
 Includes stories from the authors own classroom, and shares student insight and reactions
 Utilizes contemporary teaching methods, including cultural studies, literary circles, blogs, YouTube, class speakers, and film analysis
 Directly and powerfully models how to address controversial issues in the region

Written in an open, personal, and engaging style, theoretically informed and academically smart, highly relevant across the field of literacy education, this text offers teachers and teacher-educators a much needed resource for helping students to think deeply and critically about the politics and culture of the Middle East through literary engagements.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Special Acknowledgments

1. Cultural and Religious Contexts: Teaching About Abraham, Blain H. Auer

2. The Theme of Justice

3. Muslim Women in the Middle East

4. A New High School Social Studies Class: The Middle East, Beginning with Turkey, Monica Mona Eraqi

5. Europe and America in the Middle East: Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism, Intervention, Terrorism, and War

6. Imbedded: Teaching the Iraq War, Jeffrey A. Paterson

7. Teaching the Palestine/Israel Conflict

8. Teaching Moroccan Literature oflã(