K-14 Topical Teaching Guides

Funded through a Department of Education Title VI grant, IMES provides professional development workshops, classroom resources, and reading guides on the Middle East for K-14 educators. Through our faculty experts, we continue to provide valuable resources from an interdisciplinary perspective to help educators move beyond the headlines and generate nuanced understandings of a commonly misunderstood region.

Geographic Thinking: Place and Region

A collection of 4 lesson plans related to how people conceive of place and region.

Movement of Humans: The Development of the Muslim World (600-1100 CE)

A collection of 4 lesson plans related to the development of the Muslim World.

Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Discrimination

Multimedia resource guide for teaching about Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Discrimination

Popular Music in the Arab World

Multimedia resource guide on popular music in the Arab World

Teaching about Refugee and Migrant Rights in the MENA

Multimedia resource guide for teaching about refugee and migrant rights in the MENA