I’m assigning two required readings for Tuesday, February 9 on Nasser’s Arab socialism. One of them is on the St. Edward’s Library website, so you’ll need to log in to view it. It’s located here. The second is a reflection … Continue reading
Here we are officially at the end of one month of class. Today we’re going to be talking about Egypt’s revolution. You read a pretty detailed chapter in BAS about contemporary Egypt. What I’d like to do today, after our visit … Continue reading
Wow! We’re almost a month into the semester. This week we’ll start moving on to talking about Egypt and its revolution, which will occupy our readings and activities for about the next month. Today, we’re going to get some practice … Continue reading
Our agenda for the day: Questions and comments about Diigo. (5 min.) Compare maps with neighbors (5 min.) Small group discussion questions about the chapter (15 min.) Whole-class discussion about the chapter, nature of political activism, first-person perspective on a … Continue reading
Yesterday was the fifth anniversary of the Tahrir Uprising in Egypt, and it was met with a lot of forlorn remembrance but little public display. You can dig back through our Diigo feed to see a number of prominent Egyptian … Continue reading
Now that we’re about two weeks into the course, our routine is probably coming into focus. To help keep track of all the weekly tasks, I created Canvas assignments for the bookmarking activities, geo-tagging and the short papers. Today we’re … Continue reading
Greetings! We just passed this weekend the five-year anniversary of the collapse of the Ben Ali regime in Tunisia, and we’re fast approaching the five-year anniversary of the start of the Egyptian revolution. Today we’ll have a few activities and … Continue reading
On Thursday we’ll talk about where and what the Middle East is and I’ll share some nifty little artifacts that help put the diversity of the Middle East into a bit sharper focus. Hopefully you’ve all read or are reading … Continue reading
Today is our first day of class. I will typically write up blog posts like this before class to plan out the meeting or share materials we’ll use in discussion this day or the next today. For our first day … Continue reading