Teaching the Middle East Through Language Arts
Arabic
Elementary
Silent
Music: A Story of Baghdad, written
and illustrated by James Rumford. (Roaring Brook Press, 2008). (MEOC Winner 2008)
Middle and High
Where the Streets Had a Name
by Randa Abdel-Fattah (Scholastic Press, 2010).
(MEOC Winner, 2011)
Israeli
Elementary
One
City, Two Brothers by Chris Smith,
illustrated by Aurélia Fronty (Barefoot Books, 2007). (MEOC Winner 2007)
Middle and High
Freefall. Anna Levine (Greenwillow, 2008)
Persian
Elementary
Count
Your Way through Iran by Jim Haskins
and Kathleen Benson, illustrated by Farida Zaman (Millrook Press, 2007). (MEOC
Honorable Mention 2007)
Middle and High
Persepolis
and Persepolis
2, by Marjane Satrapi. (Pantheon, 2003, 2008).
Turkish
Elementary
“Lazy
Keloğlan and the Sultan’s Daughter: A Turkish Tale” Faces, February,
2010.
Teacher
guide here Text of the
story is included in A Treasury of Turkish Folktales for Children,
Barbara K. Walker.
Middle
and High
Memed,
My Hawk, by Yashar Kemal. (New York Review of Books, 2005)
For more suggestions, go to the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East
Studies
and Eve Tal’s site for books on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
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