Middle East
“Going Through the Lands of the Franks without Impediment”: Making and Maintaining Peace in the Levant
Discussion of teaching peacemaking during the Crusades
“Piles of Corpses Were Found Everywhere”: The Motives and Immediate Consequences of the First Crusade
Discussion of teaching the First Crusade
“Come Christians and Jews”: The Eleventh-Century Eastern Mediterranean and Europe
Discussion of teaching the eleventh-century causes of the First Crusade
“The Meeting Place of Muslim and Christian Merchants”: Teaching the Crusades in World History
Discussion of teaching the Crusades in World History classrooms
“The New Institutions”: Teaching Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Reforms
Teaching the social effects of the Ottoman Tanzimat
“To Marry Egypt to Liberty and Independence”: Teaching the Egyptian Revolution of 1919
Discussion of teaching the 1919 Egyptian Revolution
“Successfully Compete with the British”: Contemporary Accounts of Muhammad Ali’s Industrial Experiment
Discussion of teaching Egypt as an example of state-sponsored industrialization
“Such a State is Bound to Disappear”: The Middle East in the Forty Years’ War
Discussion of teaching the Middle East during the World Wars
“Freedom of Trade in Opium”: Teaching Opium Production and Trade in the Late Nineteenth Century
Discussion of late nineteenth-century opium economy in Anatolia, Persia, and Southeast Asia
“Opium Was One of Those Things”: Rethinking How We Teach the Nineteenth-Century Opium Trade
Discussion of teaching the nineteenth-century opium trade
