This page will link our visitors to the Middle East Teaching Modules developed by CCP faculty in the course of Title VI Department of Education Grant, The Middle East and Cross-Regional Connections.

Click here for the project homepage. It has information about past lectures and the 2004 Summer Seminar on Middle East Studies.

Fay Beauchamp--Religion and Women in Ancient Egypt: Focus on Akhenaten and Nefertiti

Lyn Buchheit -- The Epic of Gilgamesh, Archetypal Significance of the Heroes, Currency of the Epic in Present Times

Christopher DiCapua--The Spanish Jews: Improving Spanish Proficiency Through an Analysis of Their Music

Sharon Rees Eiferman -- The Garden of Eden and The Flood Narratives from The Fertile Crescent of Ancient Mesopotamia

Linda Fellag -- Burial Practices in Ancient Egypt

Grace Flisser -- Sufi Motifs in Persian and Arabic Poetry

Cynthia L. Giddle--Whose Arabian Nights?

Lakshmi Gudipati -- Hallmarks of a Civilization: A Case Study of Ancient Mesopotamia and Indus Valley

Stephen S. Katz -- Imperialism, Arab Nationalism, and World War I

Sue Ellen Liebman --Women in the Muslim World

Katie Oxx -- Cross-Regional Contact in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1095-1228

Kathleen M. Pearle -- Building and Differentiating Cultural Identity in the Ancient World