middle east

In this adaptation of a Middle Eastern folktale, after being forced to change into a fancy coat to attend a banquet, Nasruddin feeds his dinner to the coat, reasoning that his coat was the invited guest. Includes storytelling activities.

"When Madian Al Jazerah came out to his Arab parents, his mother had one question. 'Are you this?' she asked, cupping her hand. 'Or are you this?' she motioned with a poking finger. If you're the poker, she said, you aren't a homosexual. For Madian, this opposition reveals not who he is, but patriarchy, power, and society's efforts to fit us into neat boxes"--OCLC.

The devastating terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 sent the United States reeling and sparked a nearly decade-long hunt for the man behind the attacks. Follow U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six as on their dangerous mission to capture Osama bin Laden in this graphic depiction. Then, learn more about the SEALs and their gear.

Presents information about Middle Eastern culture, while providing ten craft projects.

Presents an illustrated look at the lives of twenty-five Middle Eastern women from ancient times through the early twenty-first century.

"Explores the significant global issues surrounding the politics, conflict, and violence of revolution and change ... [in the Middle East and North Africa]. The people behind the movements and the reason why changes are taking place are examined, along with the public perceptions around the globe of these areas and their events"--Provided by publisher.

By the early years of the 2000 decade, Americans as well as others in the West had become all-too-familiar with Islamist terrorism. The attacks of September 11, 2001, took the lives of nearly three thousand Americans who were killed when airliners hijacked by terrorists slammed into the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, DC. The Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda took responsibility for the attack. (Al-Qaeda is an Arabic word meaning "the base.") In fact, by early 2018, the US State Department identified no fewer than fifty separate organizations as Islamist terrorist groups. Certainly, these groups vary in size but their missions are strikingly similar: To bring down national governments and install in their places theocracies that would govern under the edicts of fundamentalist Islamic law-in other words, following to the letter laws first written by Islamic scholars more than 1,400 years ago. To achieve this goal, their members are willing to resort to murdering innocent civilians.

Describes how ISIS recruited women of all ages from middle- and upper-class families from throughout the world. Rather than a land of justice and piety, they found themselves trapped within a brutal terrorist regime that rules by chaos, upheaval, and violence. Moaveni argues that the problem called terrorism is a far more complex, political, and deeply relatable one than we generally admit.

Contains a retelling of the tale of a poor woodcutter who discovers the secret hiding place of a band of robbers. Presented in English and Arabic.