This Blog is intended for use by students in the Islamic Middle East course at Northfield Mount Hermon School and guest students and teachers from other participating schools.
See the following reports:
BBC
Rachel Donadio, “Catholic and Muslim Leaders Pledge to Improve Relations,” New York Times, Nov. 7, 2008, A11
Rachel Donadio wrote an article we read early in the semester on stereotyping — go to article.
More on Muslim-Christian relations
More on Stereotyping
This story appeared in the New York Times of October 14, 2008. It speaks directly to those NMH students headed off to Turkey later this fall, to the PA students who have studied Turkey and to everybody inside and outside of Turkey watching the country wrestle with it’s post-Ottoman identity. Turkey contains so many of [...]
In advance of our screening of Jack Shaheen’s film (based on his book by the same title), you may wish to look at the following review available via the NMH Virtual Desktop and ProQuest: William Booth, “Cast of Villains, The Washington Post, June 23, 2007. (More on the history of polemical attacks on Muslims)
More food [...]
Click here to reach the links to the readings for our discussion of stereotyping of Arabs and Muslims (the readings are in the “Background and Perspective” section of the syllabus web page). A written response to the Donadio piece is due.
BBC Middle East