Teaching the Literature of Today's Middle East

Allen Webb is Professor of English Education and Postcolonial Studies at Western Michigan University.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsSpecial Acknowledgments1. Cultural and Religious Contexts: Teaching About Abraham, Blain H. Auer2. The Theme of Justice3. Muslim Women in the Middle East4. A New High School Social Studies Class: The Middle East, Beginning with Turkey, Monica Mona Eraqi5. Europe and America in the Middle East: Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism, Intervention, Terrorism, and War6. Imbedded: Teaching the Iraq War, Jeffrey A. Paterson7. Teaching the Palestine/Israel Conflict8. Teaching Moroccan Literature of Migration, David Alvarez9. Literature by and about Muslim and Middle Eastern Immigrants in the West10. Teaching Muslim Students 11. Reading and Teaching Literature in Translation, Vivan Steemers12. Connecting British and American Literature to the Middle EastConclusionContributorsBibliography

“This clearly unique book speaks to a timely and important topic that has simply not been addressed sufficiently by current pedagogy. A book that helps teachers to teach authentic texts by and about people from the Middle East [is] a welcome addition to our current resources on teaching literature.”—Amanda Haertling Thein, University of Pittsburgh “There is an obvious need for this book because of U.S. involvement in the Middle East—always pressing but currently precipitous…. Allen Webb demonstrates the experience and knowledge to address the dynamics of a constantly changing Middle Eastern situation and to meet the pedagogical challenge of building collaborative understanding in face-to-face and electronic classroom exchanges.”—Betsy Hearne, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Emerita)