Middle East
Visualizing the Spread of Chess
Discussion of visual primary sources showing the spread of chess
Abu Zayd and Turks in Dar al-Islam
Discussion of using paintings to teach about the spread of Turks in Dar al-Islam
“People of All Tongues”: Teaching the Continuity of Religious Diversity in Dar al-Islam
Discussion of teaching the continutity of religious diversity in Dar al-Islam
“Escape the Prison of Our Narrative”: Teaching Israeli and Palestinian Nonviolence
Discussion of Palestinians and Israelis who have supported nonviolence in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries
“Singing Two Different Lullabies at the Same Time”: Using Political Cartoons to Teach British Palestine, 1936-1948
Discussion of Palestinian and Jewish political cartoons from the 1930s and 1940s
“A Kind of Mutual Understanding Prevailed”: Competing Visions of Mandatory Palestine’s Future, 1920-1936
Discussion of teaching Israeli and Palestinian shared history between 1920 and 1936
“Hebrew with an Arabic Accent”: Teaching Israeli and Palestinian Shared History with Short Stories
Discussion of using short stories to teach twentieth century Israeli and Palestinian history
“We Are All Poor Nowadays”: From Ottoman Palestine to British Mandatory Palestine, 1914-1920
Discussion of teaching the experiences of Palestinians and Israelis during the First World War
“Study and Understand the Psyche of Our Neighbors”: Palestinian and Zionist Exchanges, 1899-1914
Discussion of teaching Palestinian and Zionist encounters at the beginning of the twentieth century
“Improves the Conditions of the Colonies”: The First Zionist Settlements in Ottoman Palestine
A discussion of using the first Zionist settlements in Ottoman Palestine to teach colonialism
