Arabic-L:PEDA:Cultural Artifacts Responses

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1) Subject: Cultural Artifacts Response
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Date: 11 Apr 2000
From: Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>v
Subject: Cultural Artifacts Response

some things you can use:

a newspaper, a magazine, a shiisha; bring in a dish, bread; perhaps music;
cartoons; a cactus; incense, perfumes; a map; pictures, jewellery; crafts;
spices;
musical instruments; a poem or two....

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Date: 11 Apr 2000
From: djust at netvision.net.il
Subject: Cultural Artifacts Response

I bet that what you are going to get is a list of everyone's
individual prejudices.  Having said that, you might as well get mine.
 Don't forget:

1.  A lot of the Koran.  But that's too obvious for words, I guess.
2.  The Abbasid historians.  My first contact with them, in fact, was
in AFL.  They are entertaining (very important in the classroom),
important in themselves in the history of Arabic culture, and
important as historical sources.
3.  Medieval lyric poetry.  Always a good teaching tool in a foreign
language.  And never underestimate dual-language editions as a
teaching tool.
4.  Selections from modern Arabic political writings CHOSEN FOR THEIR
RHETORICAL VALUE.
5.  The Medieval Aristoteleans.  If you look a little below the
surface, their influence on all of human culture West of China has
been absolutely shocking, and I suspect that they're not much harder
for speakers of English to understand than for speakers of Arabic.

Good luck.
David

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