Arabic-L:GEN:Teaching Arab/Islamic Culture to City Employees Responses

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Date: 12 Dec  2003
From:Jamal Qureshi <arablds at hotmail.com>
Subject:Teaching Arab/Islamic Culture to City Employees Response

The PBS special "Islam: Empire of Faith" is a wonderful background on  
Islamic civilization.  Perhaps a bit simplified and sugar-coated, but  
very well done and would help build appreciation.  Information can be  
found on the PBS website here:

http://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/

And the DVD can be purchased from PBS here (I imagine it's available  
elsewhere too):

http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp? 
productId=1402880&cp&searchId=5303441009&keywords=islam+empire+of+faith& 
parentPage=search

Jamal Qureshi

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Date: 12 Dec  2003
From:Raji Rammuny <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:Teaching Arab/Islamic Culture to City Employees Response

Hi Ahmad:

I'm in the process of updating the coursetool readings on Arab/Islamic  
culture course to be offered winter 2004. I'll be glad to provide a  
list of readings and video titles by January. The Introduction to  
Arab/Islamic Culture course to be offered in winter in our department  
has already attracted 150 students.

We are thinking of offering Beginning Kurdish this coming summer. We  
would appreciate any suggestionsregarding instructional materials and  
instructors.

Raji

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Date: 12 Dec  2003
From:dwilmsen <dwilmsen at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Teaching Arab/Islamic Culture to City Employees Response

Assuming that you want something very accessible and not scholarly or  
even
verbose, I
have heard good things about the booklet

A Brief Illustrated Guide to Understanding Islam
I. A. Ibrahim, et. al.

It can be found on Amazon.

David Wilmsen

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4)
Date: 12 Dec  2003
From:Lampe, Gerald <glampe at nflc.org>
Subject:Teaching Arab/Islamic Culture to City Employees Response

By far the best thing available for this purpose is Margaret Nydell's
Understanding Arabs available from Intercultural Press, Inc.

Gerald E. Lampe, Ph.D.
Deputy Director
National Foreign Language Center
1029 Vermont Avenue, NW, Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 637-8881 ext. 22
glampe at nflc.org
www.nflc.org

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