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Arabic Around Us: Exploring Everyday Life Group Project, Bret Windhauser
Arabic Around Us: Exploring Everyday Life Group Project, Bret Windhauser
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Students will work in small groups to create a comprehensive and engaging project that explores a particular aspect of everyday life in an Arabic-speaking country. This could include food, traditions, daily routines, or an introduction to the language itself. By the end of the assignment, students will demonstrate their understanding of Arabic vocabulary, grammar, and culture through a creative project.
Arican - Anth24600 Middle Eastern And North African Societies And Cultures Syllabus, Alize Arican
Arican - Anth24600 Middle Eastern And North African Societies And Cultures Syllabus, Alize Arican
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No abstract provided.
Engl 157: Great Works Of Global Literature, Scott R. Kapuscinski
Engl 157: Great Works Of Global Literature, Scott R. Kapuscinski
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Syllabus for a general education course bringing together celebrated texts by Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, Bessie Head, and Marjane Satrapi. Survey of perspectives beginning during the "scramble for Africa" via Conrad, through postcolonial writers Achebe and Head, and finally making a connection via dehumanization to Orientalism and undoing monocultural presumptions in the near East through Satrapi's Persepolis.
Mes 160: Classical Islamic Literature & Civilization, Kirsten Beck
Mes 160: Classical Islamic Literature & Civilization, Kirsten Beck
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This open resource includes a syllabus, class schedule, grading rubrics, and guidelines/examples for digital poetry annotation.
The course website can be found here: http://mes160.social.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/
In this course, we will take a journey through history, literature, and ideas, traveling through Islamic civilization from 600-1250 CE. We will learn about and contemplate the major events and concerns of Islamic civilization, from the dawn of Islam through the expansions, transformations, and fragmentations of Islamic empires, up until the end of the 13th century. Works of Islamic literature from a variety of genres will fuel our journey. Along the way, we will learn how …
Introduction To Islamic Art & Architecture, Abby M. Kornfeld
Introduction To Islamic Art & Architecture, Abby M. Kornfeld
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This course surveys the foundations of Islamic art and architecture in the Middle East and then traces these artistic forms across the Mediterranean and into Central Asia. We will work our way from the seventh through the sixteenth centuries, studying everything from mosques to palaces, from holy texts to vividly depicted tales of love, friendship, and behavior, from shimmering mosaics to stuccoed vaults. Class discussion will be focused on the making, meanings, and social resonances of Islamic art. Together, we will work to define and redefine the term “Islamic Art,” as we consider the following topics: the religious, political, and …