“Two Deserts, One Sky” is a project by UA doctoral student Danielle Adams. It gives information and activities on Islamic astronomy, which was highly developed in the medieval Muslim world. Medieval Arabs, Persians, Spaniards, etc. used astronomy to calculate Muslim prayer times, navigate through deserts and across seas, and determine figure out night shifts for water supplies. F
"Two Deserts, One Sky” is a project by UA doctoral student Danielle Adams. It gives information and activities on Islamic astronomy, which was highly developed in the medieval Muslim world. Medieval Arabs, Persians, Spaniards, etc. used astronomy to calculate Muslim prayer times, navigate through deserts and across seas, and determine figure out night shifts for water supplies.
Here’s a short video (less than 6 ½ minutes) called “The European Refugee Crisis and Syria Explained.” It’s animated and high-interest – though they explain things very quickly….
hoices (put out by Brown University) has so many resources for educators. The focus is on high school students, but I think many materials are really too advanced for younger high school students – but work well for upper-level high school or for early college students. Some are free (“Teaching with the News” lessons); others are low-cost.
The University of North Carolina's Worldview project has many fantastic - free - resources for community college educators who want more global content in their curriculum. They have curriculum modules that can be inserted into pre-existing courses and new courses that can be added to the curriculum.
If you teach about women in Islamic cultures, the University of North Carolina's website "Re-Orienting the Veil" may interest you. It's full of resources and photos on veiling, not only in the Middle East or Islamic cultures.
Harvard University has a webpage supposedly for K-12 educators. However, several of their lessons are useful for or adaptable to teaching college students. Look in particular at the one on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the one on "The Clash of Misunderstandings" (about anti-Western feeling in the Middle East and Islamophobia in the West).
Starting October 3rd, please join us at the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh for a course open to both Muslims and Non-Muslims who are interested in increasing their knowledge of feeing their curiosity about what the religion of Islam is all about. The course begins with basics which will lead into a more in-depth study of the five Pillars, Quran, Hadith, and the Messengers of God.
A sign at the entrance of a family farm near Bethlehem reads “We refuse to be enemies.” The farm belongs to Daoud Nassar, a Palestinian Christian who operates a peace center there known as the Tent of Nations that has welcomed Christians, Jews and Muslims from all over the world. Although his family has farmed the land since the Ottoman era, he has battled in the courts for over 20 years to keep it from being confiscated by the Israeli government.
