Mounir Farah Gives Address on 'Teaching Middle Eastern Studies'
Posted on 9/4/2009
Mounir Farah, University of Arkansas professor of curriculum and instruction, delivered the luncheon address at a conference titled "Teaching the Social Studies" on Aug. 6-7 at the University of Central Arkansas.
Farah's topic was "Teaching Middle Eastern Studies." A professor in the College of Education and Health Professions and with the university's King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, he served as a general editor of a volume in a new series of world history encyclopedias published earlier this year by M.E. Sharpe Inc., editing Civilizations of the Middle East and Southwest Asia with Sarolta Takacs, professor and dean of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University. Farah is also the author of numerous articles and chapters in social science books. He co-authored Global Insight: People and Cultures and is the senior author of World History: The Human Experience, both published by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill.
About 100 educators attended the UCA conference, and Farah took questions for about an hour following his address.
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