Online Resources

WEBLIOGRAPHY:

“BBC News Special Report: Middle East Crisis.” BBC. Link to resource (accessed April 30, 2010). Ongoing BBC coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“Safavid Empire 1502-1736.” Ghasemi, Shapour. History of Iran. Iran Chamber Society. Link to resource (accessed April 30, 2010).

“Global Connections: The Middle East.” WGBH, Public Television. Link to resource (accessed April 30, 2010).

“History of the Ottoman Empire.” Historyworld. Link to resource (accessed April 30, 2010).

“Introduction.” The Islamic World to 1600: Rise of the Great Islamic Empires. The University of Calgary. Link to resource (accessed April 30, 2010).

Middle East Research and Information Project, www.merip.org Link to resource (accessed April 30, 2010).

“Timeline.” Access Islam. Educational Broadcasting Corporation. Link to resource (accessed April 30, 2010). The site contains a number of resources about Islam, but the timeline lays out basic information about the expansion of the Islamic empires.

Woodward, Prof. David R. “The Middle East during World War One.” BBC. Link to resource (accessed April 30, 2010).

BLOGS & VLOGS:

Cole, Juan. “Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion.” Link to resource (accessed April 30, 2010).

“Inside the Middle East.” CNN.com. Link to resource (accessed April 30, 2010).

“Middle East: The World Affairs Blog Network.” Foreign Policy Association. Link to resource (accessed April 30, 2010).

Queen Rania of Jordan on YouTube. YouTube.com. Link to resource (accessed April 30, 2010).

VIRTUAL ONLINE TOURS AND/OR INTERACTIVES:

“Middle East, The.” 1001 Wonders. Link to resource (accessed April 30, 2010).

“Middle East-Arabian Peninsula.” Our Place: The World Heritage Collection. Link to resource (accessed April 30, 2010).

Classroom Connections

A. Holly Shissler

Associate Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish History, University of Chicago

Erin L. Glade

Ph.D. candidate, University of Chicago
 

MAPS:

Map of Areas at One Time under Muslim Rule. Link to resource (accessed April 30, 2010).

Map of the Ottoman Empire, 1798-1923. Link to resource (accessed April 30, 2010).

Map: The Middle East in the Interwar Period. From page 164 of William Cleveland’s A History of the Modern Middle East. Link to resource (accessed April 30, 2010).

Political Map of the Middle East. University of Texas. Link to resource (accessed April 30, 2010).

Sykes-Picot: Western Designs on the Middle East. Link to resource (accessed April 30, 2010).