- NEWTON Reviews
- Essential Readings
- Articles
NEWTON: A Slave Between Empires
M’hamed Oualdi, A Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa (Columbia...
Essential Readings: Politics and Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa
[The Essential Readings series is curated by the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI)...
On Teaching Gender and Islam in The Middle East: An Interview with Lila Abu Lughod
Interview conducted by Jacob Bessen. The following interview explores Lila Abu Lughod’s...
Pedagogic Highlights
E N G A G I N G B O O K S
Engaging Books is a series that highlights important new texts by various publishers on a given theme, along with an excerpt from each volume, for teaching, review, and research purposes. Click here for E.B. posts.
Syllabus Tool! What?
True! MESPI is working on its biggest project yet: A Syllabus-Building Tool, geared primarily for the survey course. It will draw on both the MESPI community and curated resources as well as on the Knowledge Production Project to furnish a variety of choices and models. Educators would select the topic or country on which they seek resources, identify the category (Book, Peer-Reviewed Article, etc.), reading load (number of pages/week), and level (introductory, intermediate, advanced). The interactive tool would guide them through the retrieval of these resources.
Video
Interview: Noura Erakat on Democracy Now!
Lecture:
Politics in the Time of Corona: Episode 11, Anti-Asian Racism: A Feature of the Covid 19 Pandemic
Lecture: “Yemeni Fractures: Uprisings and Civil Wars” – Sama’a Al-Hamdani
Audio
'MESPI Talks': A Conversation with Katy Whiting of the Sijal Institute on Arabic Education in Amman
Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States
SPOTLIGHT
Justice for some
by Noura Erakat
“Justice for Some offers a new approach to understanding the Palestinian struggle for freedom, told through the power and control of international law. Focusing on key junctures―from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to present-day wars in Gaza―Noura Erakat shows how the strategic deployment of law has shaped current conditions. “
Islam without Europe
by Ahmad Dallal
“Ahmad S. Dallal’s pathbreaking intellectual history of the eighteenth-century Muslim world challenges stale views of this period as one of decline, stagnation, and the engendering of a widespread fundamentalism. Far from being moribund, Dallal argues, the eighteenth century–prior to systematic European encounters–was one of the most fertile eras in Islamic thought.”
MESPI's one-stop Shop
MESPI is a curated interactive platform for Middle East Studies resources, specifically tailored for the needs of teachers, researchers, and students. It is a one-stop-shop for course design on the macro level, lesson planning on the micro level, and for scholarship vis-a-vis specific topics, countries, and disciplines. The MESPI project strives to reorient the way educators and students research, learn, and teach the Middle East.
Our Global community
The MESPI platform makes approaching scholarship and teaching accessible to all, through creating a community/network of educators and building partnerships with research centers, organizations, and projects that will constitute its evolving decision-making body. This project thus becomes that of a community interested in providing a more critical alternative to existing mainstream pedagogic materials/approaches.
Syllabus tool & bank
MESPI’S Syllabus-Building Tool will draw on both the MESPI community and curated resources as well as on the Knowledge Production Project to furnish a variety of choices and models. Educators would select the topic or country on which they seek resources, identify the category, reading load, and level of instruction. The interactive tool would guide them through the retrieval of these resources.
